: An evaluation of statistics of communist rule in Cuba includes the following: 15,000 people have been executed after a trial under Cuban law 750 people have been executed without benefit of judiciary, mostly killed by police death squads 400 prisoners have been killed by guards in various incidents 400 prisoners have died for a lack of medical attention 300 people have simply disappeared in government custody 10,500 Cubans have died in Castro's various foreign wars, 9,600 of them in Angola 72,000 Cuban boat people have drowned at sea according to US Coast Guard estimates --Stephen V Cole