Yes, but I wouldn't trust the figures too terribly much. They are the only figures we have and especially in third world countries the data is still an estimate.
That being said, yes, I did the exact same calculation and figured Saddam was killing about 20 some thousand people a year under his reign, which is a heck of a lot more than the past three years. This does NOT include all the Iranians he killed in the Iran Iraq War, but I'm even willing to let those figures go because we were endorsing his action in Iran and I like to be intellectually honest.
Yes, but I wouldn't trust the figures too terribly much. They are the only figures we have and especially in third world countries the data is still an estimate.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, yes, I did the exact same calculation and figured Saddam was killing about 20 some thousand people a year under his reign, which is a heck of a lot more than the past three years. This does NOT include all the Iranians he killed in the Iran Iraq War, but I'm even willing to let those figures go because we were endorsing his action in Iran and I like to be intellectually honest.