The Uppsala Conflict Database, 1999

Each year Uppsala University publishes a list of all of the armed conflicts of the world and also puts the list online .

By comparing all conflicts in a given year against the theory, I avoid any selection bias. I chose 1999 because that was the year available at the New York Public Library.

The conflicts are sorted by the reported death toll for 1999.

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Location	Government	Opposition	Total Death Toll	1999 Death Toll	Linguistic?
Ethiopia/Eritrea	Eritrea	Ethiopia	50,000-100,000	>30,000
Angola	Angola	UNITA		>10,000
Sierra Leone	Sierre Leone and ECOMOG	RUF and AFRC	..	>6,000
Russia	Russia	Chechnya	>30,000-60,000	>4,000
Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	Tamil	>45,000	>3,500
Afghanistan	Afghanistan	UIFSA	25,000-50,000	>2,000
Yugoslavia	Yugoslavia	Kosovo	2,000-5,000	1,000-3,000
India	India	Kashmir insurgents	>20,000	>1,200
India-Pakistan	India	Pakistan	>13,000	1,000-1,500
Algeria	Algeria	GIA	40,000-100,000	>1,000
Congo-Brazzaville	Congo and Angola	Opposition Militias	40,000-100,000	>1,000
Sudan	Sudan	NDA	37,000-40,000	>1,000
Colombia	Colombia	FARC	>30,000	>1,000
Colombia	Colombia	ELN	>30,000	>1,000
Guinea-Bissau	Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Guinea	Military Faction	>1,000	700-1,000
Burundi	Burundi	CNDD-FDD and Palipehutu	>1,000	>600
Somalia	No Government	RRA, SNF, DSF, SPM, USC (Bood), USC-PM, Ethiopia, USC (Aideed), USC (Malidi), SNF		>600
Turkey	Turkey	PKK	>30,000	300-600
Indonesia (Aceh)	Indonesia	GAM		50-200
India	India	Assam		>100
Israel	Israel	Non-PLO groups	>13,000	100
Philippines	Philippines	NPA		<100
Peru	Peru	Sendero Luminoso	>28,000	50-100
Indonesia (E. Timor)	Indonesia	Fretilin	50,000-60,000	< 50
Congo-Kinshasa	Congo-Kinshasa, Angola, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Chad	RCD, Rwanda, Uganda, MLC	>2,000	0
Iran	Iran	Mujahedin-e Khalq
Myanmar	Myanmar	Karen National Union	13,000-16,000
Rwanda	Rwanda	Oppostion Alliance		0