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To: Bilow who wrote (384093)	4/13/2009 11:25:48 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

"As the 20th century races to a close, it already stands out as the most productive and destructive century on record. No other comes close to it in terms of social progress - in the education, health, and wealth it has provided for the population. Yet it is also evident that no other century on record equals the 20th in uncivilized civil violence, in the number of conflicts waged, the hordes of refugees created, the millions of people killed in wars, and the vast expenditures for "defence." With four years still to go, this modern century has already been responsible for 250 wars and 109,746,000 war-related deaths, a number somewhat larger than the total current population of France, Belgium, Netherlands, and the four Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Since mid-century, wars have become more frequent and much more deadly. There have been six times as many deaths per war in the 20th century as in the 19th. Increasingly, civilians are the major victims of war. In the first half of this century, they represented about 50 per cent of war-related deaths. In more recent years, however, the proportion of civilians in total deaths has been rising. Wars are now more life-threatening for non-combatants than for those fighting them. In the 1960s civilians accounted for 63 per cent of the recorded war deaths; in the 1980s for 74 per cent; and in the 1990s the rate seems to be going higher still." ploughshares.ca