Data of "Past Genocides" provide a perspective on "Real" perpetrators or war criminals besides the dismal failure of UN Human Rights Council.

Data of "Past Genocides" provide a perspective on "Real" perpetrators or war criminals besides the dismal failure of UN Human Rights Council. 

Thus, the media biltz over human genocide needs to be viewed in the backdrop of history.

Data is given below:

Genocides  Data

Vietnam War 1955 to 1975 (20 years)

1.            North Vietnam & Viet Cong: Total military dead: ≈667,130–951,895; Total military wounded: ≈604,200 (excluding GRUNK and Pathet Lao):             

·         As per US - 30,000–182,000 civilian dead; 849,018 military dead or missing - 666,000–950,765;

·         as per Viet Nam 300,000+ military missing and 600,000+ military wounded; and

·         Khmer Rouge: Unknown; Pathet Lao: Unknown;  China: ~1,100 dead and 4,200 wounded;  Soviet Union: 16 dead; North Korea: 14 dead.

2.            South Vietnam: 195,000–430,000 civilian dead; [254,256–313,000 military dead; 1,170,000 military wounded; ≈ 1,000,000 captured.

 3.           United States: 58,281 dead (47,434 from combat); 303,644 wounded (including 150,341 not requiring hospital care)

4.            Laos: 15,000 army dead.

5.            Khmer Republic: Unknown

6.            South Korea: 5,099 dead; 10,962 wounded; 4 missing

7.            Australia: 521 dead; 3,129 wounded.

8.            Thailand: 351 dead.

9.            New Zealand: 37 dead.

10.          Republic of China: 25 dead, and 17 captured.

11.          Philippines: 9 dead, 64 wounded.

US and Allies: Total military dead: 333,620–392,364; military wounded: ≈1,340,000+[16] excluding FARK and FANK); military captured:  ≈1,000,000+

Vietnamese civilian dead: 405,000–2,000,000: 450,000–3 ,000,000; Vietnamese total dead: 966,000 –3,010,000; Cambodian Civil War dead: 275,000–310,000; Laotian Civil War dead: 20,000–62,000; Non-Indochinese military dead: 65,494; Total dead: 1,326,494–3,447,494.

President Ronald Reagan coined the term "Vietnam Syndrome" to describe the reluctance of the American public and politicians to support further military interventions abroad after Vietnam. According to a 2004 Gallup poll, 62 percent of Americans believed it was an unjust war. US public polling in 1978 revealed that nearly 72% of Americans believed the war was "fundamentally wrong and immoral." 

One of the most controversial aspects of the U.S. military effort in Southeast Asia was the widespread use of chemical defoliants between 1961 and 1971. They were used to defoliate large parts of the countryside to prevent the Viet Cong from being able to hide their weapons and encampments under the foliage. These chemicals continue to change the landscape, cause diseases and birth defects, and poison the food chain.

Iraq War and Insurgency Civilian casualties (2003 – June 2017): at least 175,792 to 196,572 civilian deaths recorded.

Syrian Civil War - Estimates of the total number of deaths by opposition activist groups, vary between 499,657 and about 610,000 as of March 2022.

Yemen: A United Nations report has projected that the death toll will reach 377,000 by the end of 2021, including those killed as a result of indirect and direct causes.

Somalia: According to Necrometrics, around 500,000 people are estimated to have been killed  since the start of the civil war in 1991.

 Nigerian Civil War (6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970); During the two and half years of the war, there were about 100,000 overall military casualties, while between 500,000 and 2 million Biafran civilians died of starvation. Also, 12-year-old conflict in northeast Nigeria has caused, directly and indirectly, the deaths of some 350,000 people, the vast majority of which are children below the age of five, the United Nations found in a new report.

Second Sudanese Civil War (from 1983 to 2005): Roughly two million people died as a result of war, famine and disease caused by the conflict. Four million people in southern Sudan were displaced at least once (and normally repeatedly) during the war.

Ethiopia - Tigray War: February 2021 - at least 52,000 civilians killed by the ENDF, the Eritrean Defence Forces (EDF), Amhara militias, and other forces allied with the ENDF. As per latest reports, as many as 500,000 people have died from war and famine in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia over the past 16 months.

Having conducted "Fighting in the Built Up Area during 1971 War in Khulna, over 400 casualties were suffered by three units of the Brigade for capturing hardly 2000 yards by 2000 yards. 

In particular, when the civilians are also armed with weapons and there is no way identify enemy soldiers from civilians. 

If you wish for peace; first understand WAR and its devastation for "Friend and Foe".

So, political leadership on all sides are equally to be responsible and accountable for the destruction and casualties.

 G B R