[PEN-L:4820] Re: Stats on recent atrocities

[Bill Burgess <burgess@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
>Estimated # of persons killed:
>
> In Iraq due to US-led
> sanctions: over
> 1,000,000
>
> In the Sudan over the
> past 15 years:
> 1,500,000
>
> In Rwanda over the
> last 5 years: 500,000
>
> In Chechnya: 80,000
>
> Around the world
> each day because of
> lack of water, clothing,
> shelter, food or
> medicine: 100,000
>
> Est # of people in the
> world who go to bed
> hungry: 800,000,000
>
> Est # of persons killed
> in Kosovo last year:
> 2,000
>
> ...from Sam Smith's "The
>  Progressive Review"
>
>
>