Kosovo statistics

Forwarded statistics on Kosovo
Regards,
Tom Griffiths
Newcastle, Australia.

PS. For those who don't know there is good, non-cnn info on Kosovo at the
Znet site <http://www.lol.shareworld.com/ZMag/kosovo.htm> A good in-depth
background article can be found there by Balkans specialist Diana
Johnstone: "Notes on the Kosovo Problem", amongst many others.


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What CNN doesn't tell you about the Kosovo war

Here are 4 interesting bits of statistics related to the current
crisis in Kosovo, from Princeton University's Student newspaper:

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%

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Treasurer, "La Peņa"		Fax:	(02) 4921 6895
Research Assistant		
Faculty of Education		
University of Newcastle		
NSW. 2308. Australia.

"And the only measure of your words and your deeds will be the 
love that you leave when you're gone"
					- Roy Bailey
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