Democide: Death by Government

Let's not forget that, during the 20th Century alone, over 262 million people were murdered in bloody, left-wing political purges. Not soldiers, mind you, but millions of innocent civilians; men, women, and children whose only crime was not marching in lockstep with some despotic tyrant's warped ideologies. Perhaps as many as 100 million of those people were murdered in China alone by the Chinese Communist Party. Democide (death by one's own government), in fact, has been the leading cause of death in human history.