Finnish civil war

[Scyepogg]

Following yesterday's talk, I checked the matter on wikipedia. The Russian (and the English) article mentions 5000 killed "whites" and 30000 killed "reds". That makes about 1,15% of population.
Wiki data on Russian civil war makes at least 4,5 million dead out of about 180 million population, that is 2,5%.
But well, perhaps there are different numbers in Finnish literature.

The Rwanda genocide can also be remembered, it can be named a civil war and it killed 10% of population.

(We were discussing the matter of finnish civil war being the most devastating. I am not trying to prove any point of your education being wrong, I just got curious on the matter and decided to check it out.)

[The Deserted Grail]

That's actually pretty close to what I remember hearing: that around 1% of the population died, which made me raise an eyebrow when our teacher continued with saying that it was one of the most devastating civil wars anywhere ever. 1% doesn't really sound that much if you consider that there are bigger countries with way more problems than us.

When were the Rwanda genocide and the Russian civil by the way?

[Scyepogg]

Russian civil war was at the same time as the Finnish war, they were actually parts of the same war to some extent. Russian civil war was 1918-up to 1922 I think. Same white and reds.
The Rwanda genocide was in 1994, and though most see it as an ethnic conflict, actually the Tutsi and Hutu "tribes" are social groups of the same ethnicity, with Tutsi haveing always been richer and th ruling class and Hutu the simple people. Here is an English wiki article (I haven't read this one though) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda_genocide .