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Rummel and definition
Rummel explicitly excludes battle deaths in his definition.
Famine is classified by Rummel as democide if it fits the definition above.

Rummel and any
Democide is a term revived and redefined by the political scientist R. J. Rummel as " the murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder.
Rummel defines democide as " the murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder ".
Rudolph Rummel says, "... no researcher should accept any one or two tests as definitive.
Christian Prince serves as a guide for the teacher and the prince as well as all court personnel who might have any reason to speak to or with him and espouses Erasmus ’ rhetorical approach to Christocentric political theories and pedagogical praxes which he refers to as the “ philosophia Christi .” The concept of “ philosophia Christi, ” Erasmus ’ primary topoi in Christian Prince, is defined by Erika Rummel as “ a life centered on Christ and characterized by inner faith rather than external rites ”, was introduced more than a decade prior to the publishing of Christian Prince in a similar body of work, The Handbook ( or “ Dagger ”) of a Christian Soldier ( Enchiridion Militis Christiani ) ( 1504 ).

Rummel and term
" Rummel created the term as an extended concept to include forms of government murder that are not covered by the term genocide, and it has become accepted among other scholars.
In order to avoid confusion over which meaning is intended, Rummel created the term democide for the third meaning.
Rudolph Rummel, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii who spent his career assembling data on collective violence by governments towards their people ( for which he coined the term democide ), estimated that 258, 000 must have been killed in Nazi Germany, 36, 000 in Romania under Ion Antonescu and 27, 000 in Ustashe Croatia.
Rummel coined the term democide for murder by government ( compare genocide ), his research claiming that six times as many people died of democide during the 20th century than in all that century's wars combined.

Rummel and democide
In the 20th century, democide passed war as the leading cause of non-natural death ( according to Rummel ).
Some examples of democide cited by Rummel include the Great Purges carried out by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union, the deaths from the colonial policy in the Congo Free State, and Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward, which resulted in a famine killing millions of people.
For instance, Rummel only recently classified Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward as democide.
Therefore, thought Rummel, it was not an intentional famine and thus not a democide.
Based on the book's claims, Rummel now views the famine as intentional and a democide.
After studying over 8, 000 reports of government-caused deaths, Rummel estimates that there have been 262 million victims of democide in the last century.
Political scientist Rudolph Rummel estimated 262, 000, 000 deaths caused by democide, which excludes those killed in war battles, civilians unitentionally killed in war and killings of rioting mobs.
Including Vietnam's foreign democide, Rummel estimates that a minimum of 400, 000 and a maximum of slightly less than 2. 5 million people died of political violence from 1975-87 at the hands of Hanoi.
" R. J. Rummel, an analyst of government killings, or " democide ", gives a " reasonably conservative figure " of about 4, 500, 000 landlords and better-off peasants killed.
" Rudolph Rummel, an analyst of political killings, estimated that between 100, 000 and 200, 000 Angolans died in the MPLA's democide between 1975 and 1987.
Rummel ( 1997 ) finds that the more democratic a regime, the less its democide.
Rummel argues that the continuing increase in democracy worldwide will soon lead to an end to wars and democide, possibly around or even before the middle of this century.
Including Vietnam's foreign democide, Rummel estimates that a minimum of 400, 000 and a maximum of slightly less than 2. 5 million people died of political violence from 1975-87 at the hands of Hanoi.
Professor R. J. Rummel published updated figures on worldwide democide in 2005, stating that he believed Chang and Halliday's estimates to be mostly correct and that he had revised his figures for China under Mao accordingly.
In response to Stannard's figures, political scientist Rudolph Rummel has estimated that over the centuries of European colonization about 2 million to 15 million American indigenous people were the victims of what he calls democide, which excludes most of the causes of death mentioned by Stannard.
Furthermore, the nearly complete disappearance of the Dalmatian Italians ( there were 45, 000 or nearly 20 % of the total Dalmatian population in 1848, while now there are only 300 ) has been related to democide and ethnic cleansing by scholars like R. J. Rummel.

Rummel and was
Stowey Rummel was internationally famous, a crafter of a genuine Americana in foreign eyes, an original designer whose inventive childishness with steel and concrete was made even more believably sincere by his personality.
A few months after pleading guilty Rummel was released.
Rudolph J. Rummel was another early researcher and drew considerable lay attention to the subject in his later works.
In Rummel v. Estelle ( 1980 ), the Supreme Court upheld life with possible parole for a third-strike fraud felony in Texas, which arose from a refusal to repay $ 120. 75 paid for air conditioning repair that was subsequently considered unsatisfactory.
Rummel was released a few months later, after pleading guilty.
Following the promotion of Bishop Joseph Rummel to Archbishop of New Orleans in March 1935, Ryan was named the fifth Bishop of Omaha, Nebraska, on August 3, 1935.
This image was provided by the Dickinson High School webmaster, Chris Rummel, and is qualified under fair use.
R. J. Rummel, an analyst of political killings, argues that there was a clear genocidal intent:
The last game played in the stadium was a game between New Orleans Catholic League rivals De La Salle High School, located less than two miles ( 3 km ) from the Tulane campus, and Archbishop Rummel High School on November 1, 1979.
The last point scored in Tulane Stadium History was by Rummel High place kicker Gary Boudreaux.
Walter Rummel, with whom Pound was sharing a room while he waited for his old rooms at Church Walk to be vacated, told Hilda about Dorothy a few days before Pound asked permission to marry Dorothy.
Burly, stentorian-voiced John Hamilton was born John Rummel Hamilton in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania to John M. Hamilton and his wife Cornelia J.

Rummel and more
According to Rummel, " The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed.
In Power Kills, R. J. Rummel argues that the more power a government has, the more it tends to kill its own citizens and make war on other countries.

Rummel and than
Many of them have therefore added a qualifier, typically stating that the peacefulness apply to democracies older than three years ( Doyle 1983 ), ( Russett 1993 ), ( Rummel 1997 ), ( Weart 1998 ).

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