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To: John Carragher who wrote (10698)	1/5/2002 8:56:00 AM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

A large number of prisoners died. The march ended at Cabanatuan, where, for two years, as many as 8,000 prisoners of war languished in conditions of utter privation. The Japanese Empire had signed but never ratified the Geneva Convention, though it paid some lip service to its standards. Yet POWs were considered to be less than honorable foes -- and were treated accordingly. Thus, while four out of 100 POWs would die in German and Italian camps, the number was closer to one out of four in the Japanese facilities. >>> Only one out of 10 returned from GULAG in Norilsk, Siberia. Also.. hawaii.edu Statistics Of Mexican Democide Estimates, Calculations, And Sources* By R.J. Rummel Through its system of peonage and chattel slavery, terror, democidal conscription, summary executions, and political terror, pre-revolutionary and revolutionary Mexican regimes committed murder on a massive scale, surely totaling at least hundreds of thousands of Indians, peons, innocent villagers, captured soldiers, and conscripts. But a more precise toll is unknown. From partial information and estimates I calculate that from 1900 to 1920 total government democide alone amounted to somewhere between some 600,000 to 3,3000,000 Mexicans, perhaps closer to 1,400,000 killed. Although these figures amount to little more than informed guesses, I believe that there is enough evidence to at least indict these authoritarian regimes for megamurder.