The Wave of mass killings and the refugee exodus in Rwanda built up faster than during any other such episode in the last half century.
MASS KILLINGS
China: Mao's Cultural Revolution, 1966-76 20 million
U.S.S.R.:Stalin's reign of terror, 1936-53 20 million
Pakistan:Reprisals against Bengalis, 9 months1971 11 million
Cambodia:The Khmer Rouge killing fields, 1975-79 1.6 million
* RWANDA:Tutsis, 3 months in 1994 1 million
Indonesia:Killings of Communists and Chinese, 1956-66 500.000
Bosnia: "Ethnic cleansing," 1992-94 200.000
REFUGEES
Afghanistan: After Soviet invasion, 1979-94 6 million
* RWANDA: 3 months, 1994 2.4 million
Mozambique: Civil war and famine, 1975-92 1.5 million
Iraq:Kurds fleeing after gulf war, in 6 weeks, 1991 1.4 million
Somalia: Civil war, 1988-94 1 million
