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[–] Anamana@feddit.de 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Well how many people did the US kill? Any data on it?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 months ago

It's hard to quantify, but the US instigated or had a hand in causing most of the largest mass-killing events of the twentieth century.

To give just a single example, the CIA was the main driver behind the anti-communist massacres in Indonesia in 1965. 500k-1M people killed.

Or operation Condor, another anti-communist CIA-led program in several latin american countries: about 60-80k people killed, and 400k imprisoned.

A larger list of US atrocities is here.