From the Radio Free Michigan archives ftp://141.209.3.26/pub/patriot If you have any other files you'd like to contribute, e-mail them to bj496@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu. ------------------------------------------------ INTERVIEW WITH AND ARTICLE ABOUT AUTHOR OF "DEATH BY GOVERNMENT" "20th Century most murderous in history" By John Omicinski Gannett News Service Power-mad 20th century governments have murdered an astonishing 170 million people under dictators like Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Hitler, Tojo, and Pol Pot, says a new book. "Almost 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death; buried alive, drowned, hung, bombed, or killed in any of the myriad ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens and foreigners," writes University of Hawaii Professor R.J. Rummel, author of "Death by Government." HISTORY'S TOP NINE MEGA-MURDERERS Murdered Years 1. Joseph Stalin 42,672,000 1929-35 2. Mao Tse-tung 37,828,000 1923-76 3. Adolf Hitler 20,946,000 1933-45 4. Chaing Kai-shek 10,214,000 1921-48 5. Vladimir Lenin 4,017,000 1917-24 6. Hideki Tojo 3,990,000 1937-45 7. Pol Pot 2,397,000 1968-87 8. Yayha Khan 1,500,000 1971 9. Josip Tito 1,172,000 1941-87 In absolute numbers the above is impressive. As a percentage of the Worlds population it is necessary to go back about 1500 years. There is a delightful book called: The Secret History by Procopius that was written in the mid 500's AD. It is about Justinian and Theodora who were the rulers of the eastern half of the Roman Empire. According to the book they were directly responsible for 75 million deaths during their reign which at that time was an appreciable part of the worlds population. Any one reading the book will see a strong similarity to our *current rulers: Bill and Hillary* Jack jack@minerva.com ------------------------------------------------ (This file was found elsewhere on the Internet and uploaded to the Radio Free Michigan archives by the archive maintainer. All files are ZIP archives for fast download. E-mail bj496@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu)