Thursday, June 22, 2006

War is criminal ? - This is reality

Did you know that more than 200 million died in conflicts of the 20th century?
  • 50 mil during the WW2, of which 28 mil were civilians.
  • 3.5 mil died durig the vietnam war, 2.5 mil were civilians.
  • 1 million died during the Iran Iraq war.
  • 200,000 dead in the Gulf state.
  • more than 380,000 dead in the Iraq conflict and still counting.
  • armed conflict (1987-1997) 2 mil children killed; 4.5 mil children disabled, 12 mil children homeless, 1 mil children displaced.
  • 89% of all refugess and displaced persons globally are women and children.
  • rape is consciously used as a tool of genocide and weapon of war.
  • 70% of the 1.2 billion people living in desperate poverty are female.
  • 20,000 bosnian women were raped during the balkan war between 1992 and 1995.
  • one of six women under taliban controlled Afghanistan tried to commit suicide.
  • 500,000 Rwandese women were raped un the 1994 genocide.

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