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THE TERROR IN RUSSIA
the executed persons. The cases of ill-treatment in prisons and administrative executions, mentioned in these papers, up to the same date (November 1, 1908), are also enumerated in special chapters.[1]
Here are both sets of figures, of which the official figures apply only to civilians:
| Official Figures. | Our Figures. | |||
| Death Sentences. | Executions. | Death Sentences. | Executions. | |
| Courts Martial- | ||||
| 1905 | 72 | 10[2] | 96 | 32 |
| 1906 | 450 | 144[2] | 773 | 280 |
| 1907 | 1,056 | 456[3] | 1,432 | 508 |
| 1908 | 1,741 | 825[2] | 1,835 | 802[4] |
| Field Courts Martial, acting from August 19, 1906, to April 20, 1907 | 683 | 676 | ||
| Total | 2,118 | 2,298[5] | ||
No official figures for the year 1909 have yet been published, but the figures compiled from the daily papers and produced before the Duma in a recent discussion are:-
| 1909 | Death Sentences. | Executions. |
| January | 121 | 107 |
| February | 132 | 76 |
| March | 143 | 52 |
| Total (3 months) | 396 | 235 |
- ↑ According to a decision of the Ministry, the papers were forbidden few months ago to publish in full the crimes for which the death sentences were pronounced, and a short time ago the Moscow Courts Martial stopped communicating even the numbers of the executions which took place. The executions are carried out in great secrecy at night, and in May last we learned that fifteen executions had taken place at Moscow, of which no information had been supplied to the papers.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 How many military must be added to these figures remains unknown.
- ↑ To this figure of 456 executions, 84 soldiers must be added, out of whom 19 were hanged and 65 shot, thus raising the yearly total to 540.
- ↑ First 10 months only.
- ↑ Two months, November and December, 1908, missing.
