accurate figures accurate conclusion ... stones in a greenhouse?

seems to be an undercurrent surfacing recently wrt racism in the non-eu tied former soviet union. im not pro or anti, however i like some analysis of the statistics when they are presented by so called media professionals, indeed i like to understand the relevence to my own life experience by comparison with my own nation and cultural melieux:


...... 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.