accurate figures accurate conclusion ... stones in a greenhouse?
...... a report by international human rights watchdog Amnesty International.
The report into violent racism shows that at least 28 people were killed and 366 were assaulted in 2005.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4969296.stm
whilst not diminishing its import and seriousness, consider this:
russia - population = 142.8 million http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/2006-28-3.cfm
28 / 148,200,000 = 0.0000001889 366/148,200,000 = 0.0000024696
do the same against numbers of murders and assaults in russia.
eg uk :
eg us :
eg germany :
eg brazil :
eg south africa
eg nigeria
eg ethiopia
eg kurdistan
as i cant find the figures at the moment ill have to leave some as rhetorical and fill in others when i have the time
it is worth considering whether racism in relation to racist motivation of attacks etc is a construct with built in biases and whether it will ramp up numbers in one country or culture more than others due to definition , eg perhaps due to preferential priority "pull factors" over non racially [ascribed] motivated equivalent attack on innocent etc
an interesting pdf can be found here :
http://www.osce.org/documents/odihr/2005/06/14915_en.pdf
no doubt the un has some figures too.
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