- — Africa:
Mass killings under Amin
Amin's regime murders soldiers, professionals, clergy and dissidents through bodies such as the State Research Bureau; estimates of the dead run up to about 300,000.
Era: Idi Amin and the War that Ousted Him
Sources: Idi Amin · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Amin Regime Terrorizes Uganda · EBSCO Research Starters
- — Africa:
The Ikiza mass killings
State and army reprisals kill an estimated 100,000–300,000 people, overwhelmingly Hutu, with educated Hutu deliberately targeted; many scholars regard the events as a genocide. Hundreds of thousands flee abroad.
Era: The Ikiza: The 1972 Mass Killing
Sources: Ikiza or Burundi Killings of 1972 · EBSCO Research Starters, The Burundi Killings of 1972 · Sciences Po, Mass Violence and Resistance, History of Burundi · Wikipedia
- — Africa:
Mass killing and exile
Under Macías tens of thousands were killed — figures of roughly 35,000–50,000 deaths are commonly cited — and by 1979 around a quarter of the population had fled into exile; the Bubi and Nigerian workers were among those targeted. Figures remain estimates.
Era: The terror of Macías Nguema
Sources: 1979 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état · Wikipedia, Francisco Macias Nguema · GlobalSecurity.org, History of Equatorial Guinea · Wikipedia
- — Asia:
The Cambodian genocide
Under the Khmer Rouge an estimated 1.5 to 3 million people, about a quarter of the population, die from execution, forced labour, starvation, and disease.
Era: War, Revolution, and Genocide
Sources: Cambodian genocide · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Khmer Rouge · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — South America:
The Jonestown tragedy
At the Peoples Temple settlement of Jonestown, more than 900 followers of the American preacher Jim Jones die in a mass murder-suicide after the killing of a visiting U.S. congressman.
Era: The Burnham Era and the Shadow of Jonestown
Sources: Jonestown · Encyclopaedia Britannica
Catastrophe in the 1970s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged catastrophe — plague, famine, earthquake and other disasters, narrowed to the 1970s — 5 of them, drawn from 5 nations, running from 1971 to 1978. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 5
- Nations
- 5
- Earliest
- 1971
- Latest
- 1978
- Africa
- 3
- Asia
- 1
- South America
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.