Ah well, my mind wandered further into the realities of what we humans are capable of doing to one another and how it seems history is bound to repeat itself. If you go with the belief that all in the universe is balanced, then it stands to reason that, if there exists a Utopia, there must surely exist a Hell. On earth, we create our own of each and it seems sometimes that nature truly is about the survival of the fittest. If nothing else, the history of humanity, while displaying the worst we can do to one another, also substantiates the indestructible, indomitable human spirit. We survive and continue on. We always have.
By ARIEL DAVID, Associated Press Writer Sat Feb 16,
Seifert, known as the "Beast of Bolzano," was convicted in absentia in 2000 by a military tribunal in Verona on nine counts of murder committed while he was an SS guard at a prison transit camp in Bolzano, northern Italy, which involved starving a 15-year-old prisoner to death, gouging out a person’s eyes, and torturing a woman before killing her and her daughter, according to testimony given by witnesses during his trial.
Statistics of the Rwandan Genocide
The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 was a truly traumatic and horrifying event. It was one of the most brutal acts of murder ever committed.
o Over the course of only 100 days, a stupefying 1,000,000 people were slaughtered.
o During this terrible slaughter of the innocent, more than 6 men, women and children were murdered every 60 seconds of every hour of every day. This brutally efficient pace was kept up for more than 3 months.
o An estimated 11% of all females, or approximately 535,000 women, living in
o During the course of the rape campaign, an average of 4 women were violently sexually assaulted, most of them by HIV+ men, every minute of every hour of every day for 100 consecutive days.
o More than 67% of women who were raped in 1994 during the genocide are now facing death from AIDS.
o As a direct result of the 100 days of death and violence in 1994 there are more than 60,000 widows living in
o Otherwise stated, 3.25% of the total Rwandan population are orphans whose parents died from AIDS.
o By the end of 2001, there were 500,000 people in
o That equates to more than 1 out of every 10 people suffering from HIV or AIDS.
o http://www.survivors-fund.org.uk/resources/history/statistics.php
Statistics on the Holocaust
It is estimated that 2 million Jews were killed by the Einsatzgruppen,* 3.3 million in the gas chambers,** and about 500,000 died in the ghettos of
*Einsatzgruppen, special duty troops of the SS’s security service and security police, were assigned to each of the German armies invading the
**Later, starting in 1942, the Nazis contructed six installations with large scale gassing facilities and with crematoria for the disposal of bodies. They were
CURRENT
· The death toll has reached up to 400,000 people since February 2003
· More than 2.5 million people have been driven from their homes
· More than 200,000 have fled to refugee camps in neighboring
· As many as 1 million civilians could die in
· 80% of the children under five years old are suffering from severe malnutrition and many are dying each day
· Humanitarian aid organizations have access to only 20% of those affected
Civil War Statistics
The Civil War,
World War II casualties
The total estimated human loss of life caused by World War II was roughly 72 million people. The civilian toll was around 47 million, including 20 million deaths due to war related famine and disease. The military toll was about 25 million, including the deaths of about 4 million prisoners of war in captivity. The Allies lost about 61 million people, and the Axis lost 11 million. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
World War I casualties
The number of World War I casualties, both military and civilian, was over 40 million — 20 million deaths and 21 million wounded. This includes 9.7 million military deaths and about 10 million civilian deaths. The Entente Powers (also known as the Allies) lost more than 5 million soldiers and the Central Powers about 4 million. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties
Hiroshimo Casualties
The cumulative number of A-Bomb survivors who died during the period
By the end of 1945 the estimated number of people who died as a direct result of the bomb was 140,000. The collection of statistics, by the Hiroshima City Government, did not commence until 1952. For the period 1946 to 1951 the number of deaths due to the bomb was estimated at 60,000. As the number of deaths among survivors, in the first ten years of the survey, showed little difference from the population as a whole it has been concluded that the number of people who died as a direct result of the bomb was approximately 200,000. http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/data.html
9/11 by the Numbers
abbreviated
- Total number killed in attacks (official figure as of
- Number of firefighters and paramedics killed: 343
- Number of NYPD officers: 23
- Number of Port Authority police officers: 37
- Number of nations whose citizens were killed in attacks: 115
- Number of families who got no remains: 1,717
- Jobs lost in
- Days after 9/11 that the
- Total number of hate crimes reported to the Council on American-Islamic Relations nationwide since 9/11: 1,714
- Estimated amount donated to 9/11 charities: $1.4 billion
- Estimated amount of insurance paid worldwide related to 9/11: $40.2 billion
- Estimated amount of money raised for funds dedicated to NYPD and FDNY families: $500 million
- Percentage of total charity money raised going to FDNY and NYPD families: 25
- Average benefit already received by each FDNY and NYPD widow: $1 million
- Percentage increase in law-school applications from 2001 to 2002: 17.9
- Percentage increase in Peace Corps applications from 2001 to 2002: 40
- Percentage increase in CIA applications from 2001 to 2002: 50
- Number of songs Clear Channel Radio considered "inappropriate" to play after 9/11: 150
- http://nymag.com/news/articles/wtc/1year/numbers.htm
Atlantic Slave Trade
In "The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Holocaust" (Is the Holocaust Unique, A. Greebaum, ed., 1996), Seymour Drescher estimates that 21M were enslaved, 1700-1850, of which 7M remained in slavery inside Africa. 4M died "as a direct result of enslavement". Of the 12M shipped to
(Possibly) The Twenty (or so) Worst Things People Have Done to Each Other: http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat0.htm
| Rank | Death Toll | Cause | Centuries |
| 1 | 55 million | ||
| 2 | 40 million | Mao Zedong (mostly famine) | |
| 3 | 40 million | 13C | |
| 4 | 36 million | 8C | |
| 5 | 25 million | ||
| 6 | 20 million | ||
| 7 | 20 million | 15C-19C | |
| 8 | 20 million | ||
| 9 | 19 million | 7C-19C | |
| 10 | 18 million | 15C-19C | |
| 11 | 17 million | 14C-15C | |
| 12 | 17 million | British India (mostly famine) | |
| 13 | 15 million | ||
| 14 | 9 million | ||
| 15 | 8 million | 3C-5C | |
| 16 | 8 million | ||
| 17 | 7 million | ||
| 18 | 5 million | 16C-17C | |
| 19 | 4 million | ||
| 20 | 3 million | ||
| 21 | 3 million | 16C |
Primitive War
Analysing statistics in Lawrence Keeley's War Before Civilization: the Myth of the Peaceful Savage (1996):
- Table 6.2 lists the Percentage of Deaths Due to Warfare. Of the 8 primitive societies that survived long enough to be analyzed by modern demographics, the median indicates that some 15.4% of all primitives, male and female alike, died by warfare. Of the 14 prehistoric cultures excavated and analyzed by archaeologists, the median indicates that about 14.8% of all prehistorics, male and female alike, died by warfare. : http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat0.htm
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