It depicts how democide has been very much a part of human history. The course of action is to foster freedom.” Death by Government is a compelling look at the horrors that occur in modern societies. Thus, as Rummel says, “The problem is power. The underlying principle is that the less freedom people have, the greater the violence the more freedom, the less the violence. His results clearly and decisively show that democracies commit less democide than other regimes. He also writes about areas of suspected genocide: North Korea, Mexico, and feudal Russia. Rummel discusses genocide in China, Nazi Germany, Japan, Cambodia, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Poland, the Soviet Union, and Pakistan. In Death by Government, Rummel does not aim to describe democide itself, but to determine its nature and scope in order to test the theory that democracies are inherently nonviolent. He presents the primary results, in tables and figures, as well as a historical sketch of the major cases of democide, those in which one million or more people were killed by a regime. Rummel's fourth book in a series devoted to genocide and government mass murder, or what he calls democide.
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