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This list includes estimates of all deaths which were directly or indirectly caused by [[genocide]]s that are recognisedrecognized in significant scholarship as genocides. This list includes events around which there is ongoing scholarly debate over the classification of '''genocide'' and is not a list of only events which have a scholarly consensus to recognize them as genocide. It excludes [[mass killing]]s which have not been explicitly defined as genocidal, but called [[mass murder]], [[crimes against humanity]], [[politicide]], [[classicide]], or [[war crime]]s, such as the [[Thirty Years' War]] (4.5 to 8 million deaths), [[Japanese war crimes]] (30 million deaths), the [[Red Terror]] (50,000 to 200,000 deaths), the [[Atrocities in the Congo Free State]] (1.5 to 13 million deaths), the [[Great Purge]] (0.7 to 1.2 million deaths), the [[Great Leap Forward]] and the [[Great Chinese Famine|famine which followed it]] (15 to 55 million deaths).<ref>{{cite book |last1=McKenna |first1=Erin |first2=Scott L. |last2=Pratt |author2-link=Scott L. Pratt |date=2015 |title=American Philosophy: From Wounded Knee to the Present |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury]] |page=375}}</ref> [[Genocides in history]] includes cases where there is less consensus among scholars as to whether they constituted genocide.
