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 Thursday, May 08, 2025

VE Day 1945-2025: eighty years of peace

1946 Greece civil war 160000	1947 India independence 800000	1948 Madagascar independence 15000	1949 China civil war 1000000	1950 Korea Korean War 3000000
1951 Malaysia civil war 13000	1952 Kenya independence 15000	1953 Tunisia independence 3000	1954 Vietnam independence 600000	1955 Morocco independence 3000
1956 Hungary civil war 20000	1957 Cameroon independence 32000	1958 Cuba civil war 5000	1959 Kenya Mau Mau 15000	1960 Zaire civil war 100000
1961 Algeria independence 100000	1962 Yemen civil war 15000	1963 Iraq civil war 105000	1964 Guinea independence 15000	1965 Indonesia civil war 500000
1966 Vietnam US intervention 2000000	1967 Israel Six Day War 75000	1968 China Cultural revolution 500000	1969 Uganda Idi Amin 300000	1970 Nigeria civil war 1000000
1971 Bangladesh independence 1000000	1972 Burundi civil war 110000	1973 Israel Yom Kippur 16000	1974 Cyprus Turkish invasion 5000	1975 Cambodia Pol Pot 1000000
1976 Lebanon civil war 100000	1977 East Timor massacre 150000	1978 Afghanistan Russian invasion 1500000	1979 Laos civil war 184000	1980 Iran v Iraq war 500000
1981 El Salvador US intervention 1000000	1982 Falklands invasion 1000	1983 Sudan civil war 1500000	1984 Sri Lanka civil war 50000	1985 Peru civil war 69000
1986 Mozambique civil war 900000	1987 Angola civil war 750000	1988 Somalia civil war 350000	1989 Panama US intervention 1000	1990 Burundi civil war 170000
1991 Iraq US intervention 100000	1992 Croatia civil war 25000	1993 Bosnia civil war 260000	1994 Rwanda civil war 900000	1995 Chechnya intervention 30000
1996 Guatemala civil war 200000	1997 Algeria civil war 150000	1998 Congo civil war 3800000	1999 Kurdistan independence 35000	2000 Ethiopia border dispute 75000
2001 Afghanistan civil war 25000	2002 Ivory Coast civil war 3000	2003 Iraq US/UK invasion 150000	2004 Sudan civil war 150000	2005 Chad civil war 7000
2006 Iraq civil war 70000	2007 Somalia civil war 70000	2008 Congo civil war 3800000	2009 Nigeria insurgency 350000	2010 Chechnya insurgency 3500
2011 Libya civil war 30000	2012 Syria civil war 650000	2013 C. A. Republic civil war 14000	2014 Ukraine invasion 15000	2015 Yemen civil war 370000
2016 Congo uprising 5000	2017 Chad insurgency 7000	2018 Iraq insurgency 9000	2019 Ethiopia civil war 16000	2020 Azerbeijan border dispute 6000
2021 Myanmar civil war 80000	2022 Ukraine invasion 260000	2023 Gaza invasion 80000	2024 Lebanon invasion 4000	2025 VE Day + 80

(nb: death tolls are estimates for each war, not for each year)

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