There is a good reason that all of this killing is unknown. The authoritarian and totalitarian thug regimes that do most of the killing usually contr… - Rudolph Rummel

Then there is the common and fundamental justification of government that it exists to protect citizens against the anarchic jungle that would otherwise threaten their lives and property. Such archaic or sterile views show no appreciation of democide’s existence and all its related horrors and suffering. They are inconsistent with a regime that stands astride society like a gang of thugs over hikers they have captured in the woods, robbing all, raping some, torturing others for fun, murdering those they don’t like, and terrorizing the rest into servile obedience. This exact characterization of many past and present governments, such as Idi Amin’s Uganda, hardly squares with conventional political science.

The more democratic freedom a people have, the less severe their internal political violence.

The less democratic a country is, the move intense its foreign violence.