The same or worse? In the 1st and 2nd worlds racial extermination is something that belonged to ancient history* until it was revived by Turkey in the genocide of the Armenians that began under the Ottomans and was continued under the "Young Turks". Their close ally Germany had an interesting hand in that episode; it's been said that Hitler referred to it in relation to his plans for racial exterminations. Incidentally, the Bundestag has just ratified a motion recognizing the Armenian genocide as such. The Turkish government has recalled their ambassador and is in a great kerfuffle at the moment, despite Merkel's attempts to smooth them down. The funny thing is, the DNA of those who call themselves Turks today is only about 20% Turkic. The other 80% is composed of the descendants of the previous residents of Anatolia and of the Ottoman "blood tax" which every five years seized the best children from only the Christian families within the Ottoman Empire and dragged them off to be forcibly converted to Islam, enlisted in the Janissaries or put into the harems etc.
A rather unique kind of racial and religious vampirism, but echoed in the Nazi kidnapping of over 200,000 "Aryan" appearing children from places like Poland. Incidentally, anyone who wants to understand the depth of hatred in places like the former Yugoslavia, has only to realize that those conquered people who took the easy way out and converted to Islam were allowed to avoid the "blood tax". Imagine that you have some quisling neighbors who have converted and now spy out your children for the next collection! Imagine being forced to choose between losing your faith and losing your children. What would you do to the people who did that to you for centuries? Of course, casual rape and seizure or killing of women and boys was merely a matter of course. Read about the atrocities in the Balkan War of 1912 if you're curious.
As for your 29 million the British supposedly dispatched in India, did you weigh against it all the innumerable lives saved by the institution of laws, courts, public health measures, infrastructure, transportation networks etc. etc.? Not on that website huh? A good start can be made here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_India
Not quite the same as a Final Solution is it?
I see you're missing a number for Canada, and just what was it that was happening "within our borders until 1996"?
It's all shades of grey? Sure, all the way from off-white to coal black.
Proving precisely nothing, but surely providing a convenient catch-all escape clause that avoids the necessity of knowledge or the intelligent interpretation of it.
(BTW, your figures for France and Italy are much too low, read about their behaviour in Abyssinia and Algeria & Indochina respectively.) We won't even get into Belgium's German king and his little adventures in the Congo.
*Partial exception made for the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of the French Protestants and some incidents in "Germany" during the Thirty Years War.
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