>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 04:40:10 +0100 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Syndicate: some BALKAN STATS >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >-------------------------------------------- >from the Progressive Review -- the Princeton University Student's newspaper >(through ZNet Update) >----------------------------------------- >BALKAN STATS I > >FROM A COLUMN BY TONY SNOW: Key members of the United States Senate sat >slack-jawed through a confidential briefing last Thursday from the Clinton >administration foreign-policy team. ~~ After the foreign-policy wise men >asserted that the United States has a moral imperative to stop the murderous >Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic, one senator asked: How many Albanians >have Milosevic's troops massacred this year? The president's emissaries >turned ashen. They glanced at each other. They rifled through their papers. >One hazarded a guess: "Two thousand?" No, the senator replied, that was the >number for all of last year. He wanted figures for the last month - or even >the year to date, since the president had painted such a grisly picture of >genocide in his March 24 address to the nation. ~~ The senator pressed on. >How often have such slaughters occurred? Nobody knew. As it turns out, >Kosovo has been about as bloody this year as, say, Atlanta. You can measure >the deaths not in the hundreds, but dozens. (I'm not trying to deny >Milosevic's brutality here; only to provide some comparisons.) More people >died last week in Borneo than have expired this year in Kosovar bloodshed - >more died in a single Russian bomb blast; in a single outburst of violence >in East Timor; in a single day in Rwanda. China has been bloodier this year. > >BALKAN STATS II > >--Estimated number of persons killed in Iraq due to American-led sanctions: >over 1,000,000 --Estimated number of persons killed in the Sudan over the >past 15 years: 1,500,000 --Estimated number of persons killed in Rwanda over >the last five years: 500,000 --Estimated number of persons killed in >Chechnya: 80,000 --Estimated number of people dying each day around the >world because of lack of water, clothing, shelter, food or medicine: >100,000 --Estimated number of people in the world who go to bed hungry: >800,000,000 --Estimated number of persons killed in Kosovo last year: 2,000 > >BALKAN STATS III > >--Estimate of new households watching CNN thanks to its war coverage: >472,000 > >BALKAN STATS IV > >--Cost of America's 21 B-2 bombers: $42 billion --Value of Yugoslavian GDP: >$43 billion --UN budget as a percentage of the Pentagon budget: 5% > + + + -> RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS -> post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> questions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> answers: http://www.rhizome.org -> unsubscribe: http://www.rhizome.org/unsubscribe/ + + + posts to RHIZOME RAW are subject to the terms set out in the Subscriber Agreement available online at <http://www.rhizome.org/subscribe/>.
