Sewing-Machine comments on Stanislav Petrov Day - Less Wrong

35 Post author: gwern 26 September 2011 02:49PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 September 2011 04:27:06AM 2 points [-]

It's probably not accurate to say more than one million people were killed during partition, but some 10 or 20 million people were forcibly moved from their homes, long distances. That's a lot of lamentable suffering, even if it's short of genocide.

Post-partition Hindu-Muslim violence, and other kinds of sectarian violence, probably do not approach one million dead.