Rashid,

The figures I quoted are of all the wars and civil wars of the world. I am giving below selected figures that are either of the wars where religion was not involved at all and were mainly between those who believed in atheistic/secular ideologies or where the main killers were atheists/secularists. I have roughly counted the numbers killed, and it comes out to be more than 140 million, which means that more than 75 percent of deaths in last 150 years can be linked to the rise of atheistic/secular ideologies. If you count atheism as religion, then every ideology is a religion. Can the world exist without any ideologies?

1911: Chinese Revolution (2.4 million)
1914-18: World War I (8 million)
1917-21: Soviet revolution (5 million)
1928-37: Chinese civil war (2 million)
1931: Japanese Manchurian War (1.1 million)
1934: Mao's Long March (170,000)
1936-37: Stalin's purges (13 million)
1936-39: Spanish civil war (600,000)
1939-45: World War II (55 million) including Chinese revolution
1946-49: Chinese civil war (1.2 million)
1946-49: Greek civil war (50,000)
1950-53: Korean war (4 million)
1958-61: Mao's "Great Leap Forward" (30 million)
1964-73: USA-Vietnam war (3 million)
1966-69: Mao's "Cultural Revolution" (11 million)
1975-2002: Angolan civil war (500,000)
1979: Vietnam-China war (30,000)
1979-88: the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan (1.3 million)
1980-92: El Salvador's civil war (100,000)
1992-96: Yugoslavia's civil war (200,000)
1995-: Maoist rebellion in Nepal (10,000)
2004 onwards US invasion of Iraq 2 million

Javed Jamil