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Posted on Monday, August 30 at 14:43 by Anonymous
Their research shows that the number of people killed in battle has fallen to 20,000 per year–the lowest number in the post-Second World War period. Although death tolls in Iraq and Afghanistan have thrust war into the global spotlight, annual reports from think-tanks such as the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and the Canadian NGO Project Ploughshares, cite a drop from the peak numbers of armed conflicts witnessed in the 1990s. According to the Stockholm Institute, which measures the number of conflicts that produce greater than 1,000 deaths in a year, 19 major wars were in progress in 2003 compared to 33 in 1991. The 2004 Stockholm report, obtained in advance of its September publication by The Associated Press, points out that three wars ended in 2003 (Angola, Rwanda and Somalia) and a fourth in India's Assam state was downgraded from the 'major' category in the same period of time. There were three new wars added in 2003–Iraq, the Darfur region of Sudan and Liberia. The list also includes the U.S. war on al-Qaeda and the conflict between India and Pakistan. Project Ploughshares, which measures the number of wars that accumulate 1,000 deaths from the beginning of a conflict, reports a drop to 33 conflicts in 2003 from 44 in 1995. The Canadian figures do not include deaths from war-induced starvation and disease, deaths from ethnic conflicts not formally involving states or unopposed massacres such as the Rwandan genocide. Written by CBC News Online http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/040830/w083038.html

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  1. by Anonymous
    Mon Aug 30, 2004 10:44 pm
    right until the bush regime is re-elected then its on to Syria, Iran, Lebanon and beyond!

  2. by Anonymous
    Tue Aug 31, 2004 1:19 am
    Iran, Syria and Lebanon(Syria's surrogate) are basically fascist police states that will hopefully topple on their own before they manage to do too much damage around the world. If one of these states needs a push however, the West should be more than happy to provide one before they manage to go on a killing spree with nuclear weapons like Iran says it wants to do.

  3. by avatar Milton
    Tue Aug 31, 2004 1:31 pm
    Anonymouse troll, go sell your military scenarios elsewhere. The US and their buddy, Israel, has been threatening the countries you mentioned for decades. When they threaten to fight back, if attacked or if they feel attack is imminent, you turn it into a threat by them to attack when ever they feel like it. The US has said time and again that it will attack pre-emptively whenever it feels it is in its interests to do so. And that is what the US has done time and time again.

  4. by Anonymous
    Tue Aug 31, 2004 3:17 pm
    Your first mistake is to imply that the US and these countries are morally equivalent when you know that they're not. In Tehran, Iranian protesters are arrested and murdered, in New York, American protesters are offered hotel deals and discounts - that is a massive difference and no amount of ideological blindness can cover it up.
    Democratic countries are superior to superstitious, dictatorial, murderous regimes and this fact is proven every day by the people who live there, they vote with their feet and try to come here. Aren't many people, if any, who are born in Canada and wish to emigrate to a place like Iran. Aren't many Canadians with Iranian heritage who want to live there either, because they know the score.

  5. by kwantize
    Tue Aug 31, 2004 4:41 pm
    Your mistake is assuming there is democracy on this
    continent. Where there are "voting" machines, television,
    and Bernays sauce, democracy is an illusion, and elections
    as fake as they were (and are) in Iraq.

  6. by Anonymous
    Tue Aug 31, 2004 7:41 pm
    So what Planet are you from? The Canadian and American governments are actually the two best governments in the world, they're more efficient, less corrupt, most democratic of any government on any continent. We have more rights and freedoms than any other group of people on the planet and in the entire history of the world. While that's true, it is still unfortunate because we still have problems like corruption in the Liberal Party of Canada for example.
    One of our freedoms is the freedom to emigrate, if you think you can find a better deal, why not go for it?

  7. by avatar Dr Caleb
    Tue Aug 31, 2004 8:25 pm
    You are mostly correct, but the U.S. is quickly heading towards the appearance of democracy, as mandated by corporations.

    http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/biztech/08 ... index.html



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    "If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill

  8. by Anonymous
    Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:08 pm
    "Aren't many people, if any, who are born in Canada and wish to emigrate to a place like Iran."

    Then looking at Japan's rate of immigration (and the authorities make it very easy for foreigners to do so), Japan must be a nightmare of brutal state oppression.

  9. by Dave Ruston
    Wed Sep 01, 2004 10:58 pm
    In the states, you`re only free if you have money. And it`s getting that way here too. They dismantle it a little at a time, so that people are still brainwashed into believing we have freedom and democracy. Some countries are freer than others, and Canada certainly is near the top of the list. And don`t forget who stopped democratic evolution in Iran in the 50`s. Yep, you guessed it- the USA! Oils well that ends well, eh?

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    Dave Ruston

  10. by Anonymous
    Fri Nov 05, 2004 10:25 pm
    I am forever astounded by the gullibility of common Americans in the way that they view their own country. America is a fascist country, not a free country, assessed according to the European/Canadian/Australian ideal of individual liberty.

    In America: Prostitution is illegal; one cannot buy an alcohol drink until age twenty-one; the sexual age of consent is eighteen; there is degrading mandatory drug testing for millions of workers; citizens are strip-searched after being arrested for minor offenses, etc.



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