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Line 8: [[File:Map of Marxist–Leninist states.png\|thumb\|325px\|Map of current and former Communist regimes {{legend\|#8B2D2D\|Current}} {{legend\|#FF5253\|Former}}]] {{communism sidebar\|related}} '''Crimes against humanity under communist regimes''' occurred during the 20th century, including [[Population transfer\|forced deportation]]s, [[massacre]]s, [[torture]], [[forced disappearance]]s, [[extrajudicial killing]]s, [[Red Terror\|terror]].,<ref name="Kemp-Welch A">Kemp-Welch, p. 42.</ref> [[ethnic cleansing]], and [[Slavery\|enslavement]], as well as deliberate [[starvation]] of people (during the [[Holodomor]] and the [[Great Leap Forward]]. Additional events included the use of [[genocide]], [[conspiracy]] to commit genocide, and complicity in genocide. Such events have been described as crimes against humanity.<ref name="Rosefielde, Steven">Rosefielde, p. 6.</ref><ref name="Karlsson, Klas-Göran">Karlsson, p. 5.</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|title=Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Approved and proposed for signature and ratification or accession by General Assembly resolution 260 A (III) of 9 December 1948 Entry into force: 12 January 1951, in accordance with article XIII \|url=https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.1_Convention%20on%20the%20Prevention%20and%20Punishment%20of%20the%20Crime%20of%20Genocide.pdf \|website=United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect}}</ref> The 2008 [[Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism]] stated that crimes which were committed in the name of [[communism]] should be assessed as crimes against humanity. Very few people have been tried for these crimes,{{Citation needed\|date=November 2021}} although the government of [[Cambodia]] has prosecuted former members of the [[Khmer Rouge]]<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/world/asia/cambodia-khmer-rouge-united-nations-tribunal.html\|title=11 Years, $300 Million and 3 Convictions. Was the Khmer Rouge Tribunal Worth It?\|first=Seth\|last=Mydans\|date=10 April 2017\|newspaper=The New York Times\|access-date=26 December 2019}}</ref> and the governments of [[Estonia]], [[Latvia]] and [[Lithuania]] have passed laws that have led to the prosecution of several perpetrators for their crimes against the Baltic peoples.<!-- Who are these alleged perpetrators who were convicted? --> They were tried for crimes which they committed during the [[occupation of the Baltic states]] in [[Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1940)\|1940 and 1941]] as well as for crimes which they committed during the [[Soviet re-occupation of the Baltic states (1944)\|Soviet reoccupation of those states]] which occurred after World War II.<ref name="Naimark, Norman M.">Naimark p. 25.</ref>

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