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Two Terrors

"There were two 'Reigns of Terror' ... the one inflicted death upon a thousand persons, the other upon a hundred million..."

Mark Twain, writing about the French Revolution,
in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Sudden Terror:
Acts of Terrorism

Lasting Terrors:
Hunger, Disease & Poverty
7000 people,
11 September 2001,
attacks on the United States		 24,000 people,
11 September 2001
(and every day) died of hunger*
21 people,
June 2001
suicide bomb, discotheque, Tel Aviv, Israel		 6,020 children,
11 September 2001
(and every day) died from diarrhoea*
17 people,
October 2000,
attack on US warship, the Cole, Yemen		 2,700 children,
11 September 2001
(and every day) died from measles*

118 people,
September 1999
apartments bombed, Moscow, Russia.

 73,606 people
every year
are killed by drought and famine
224 people,
August 1998,
attacks on US embassies in Kenya & Tanzania		 515,000 women
every year
die in pregnancy & childbirth
29 people,
August 1998,
bomb in town centre, Omagh, Northern Ireland
 200,000 children
 every year
killed in conflict

62 people,
November 1997
attack on tourist site, Luxor, Egypt

 Malnourished children in the developing world: 149,000,000
19 people,
June 1996
attack on US military complex, Saudi Arabia		 People who cannot get safe drinking water:
100,000,000
168 people,
April 1995
Federal Building bombed, Oklahoma City, US 		People who do not have satisfactory sanitation:
2,400,000,000
23 people,
October1994
suicide bus bomb, Tel Aviv, Israel

Children under 15 in Africa who have HIV:
1,100,000

* The figures are based on the yearly averages: - in reality, of course, not exactly the same number of people die on each day of the year.

Information taken from 'Two Terrors' in the November 2001 issue of the New Internationalist

© 2001: the New Internationalist

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