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- From: c34657b@saha.hut.fi (Tuomas Viljanen)
- Subject: Re: war list
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.171033.8845@nntp.hut.fi>
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:10:33 GMT
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- In article <1hih28INNpql@gap.caltech.edu> kwp@wag.caltech.edu (Kevin W. Plaxco) writes:
-
- >I define war: A political conflict in which at least 1000 people
- >have died in one year and at least 100 people per year every year
- >since that year.
- >
- >Western Hemisphere.
- >Guatamala. Central America's last war hangs on.
- >Columbia. Just when you thought it was all over...
- >Peru. How much longer can Sendero hold out?
- >Bolivia. Haven't heard much about this one lately, Eh?
- >
- >Eastern Hemisphere:
-
- You mean east from Greenwich ? ;)
-
- >Europe:
- >Former Yuogoslavia. Nuff said.
-
- A real "everybody fighting everyone" -situation. Nut case.
- The Balkans have always been refered as "the powder barrel of Europe."
- Good proverb, IMHO.
-
- >Question. Anyone know if the basqu, catalonian or IRA sepratists movments
- >quailify?
-
- Hmmm, ETA has been quite latent for the last years, the Aragonese possibly
- had it enough with the Olympics (saw all those Or, four pales Gules -banners),
- the Northern Ireland (another nut case) certainly qualifies in; the last
- remnant of the Thirty Years' War.
-
- >Asia:
- >
- >FSU. 1)Georgia, 2)Armenia, 3) Azerbijian. That about does it for the FSU.
-
- Tadzhikistan, Moldova, Kazakhstan to mention.
-
- >Iraq. 1) The Kurds, 2) the Shites.
- >Lebanon. Who isn't fighting who?
-
- Do they know it by themselves ?
- >India. 1) Kashmire, 2) Sikkim, 3) Punjab
- >Sri Lanka. The Tamils still want their homeland.
- >Burma. Karen Rebels are still duking it out with the central government.
- >Cambodia. Things are still a bit hot there.
- >Indonesia. 1) Timor, 2) Accra, 3) Irian Jiya
- >Philipines. Doesn't the PLA know communism is dead?
-
- No, my German teacher used to say: "Einige lernen nie".
-
- >Africa.
- >Morocco. Still trying to knock off SWAPO.
-
- POLISARIO, I guess; SWAPO is the Namibian liberation organization.
-
- >Liberia. Another Lebanon in africa story.
- >Angola. May God damn Savimbi.
- >Mozambique. Does RENAMO even make rationalizations as to why they fight?
-
- Hey, they just get their kicks from killing people !
-
- >Ruwanda. Peace accords are moving ahead smartly.
- >The Sudan. Islamic fundamentalists again.
- >Somalia. 'Nuff said.
-
- Total anarchy. Another Lebanon or Yugoslavia case.
-
- >Questions.
- >Do Ethiopia, Zaire, Chad, and Namibia really belong off the list?
-
- Ethiopia - no. Zaire - no. Chad - certainly not ! Namibia - yes, the
- democracy is growing on. How about Haiti ?
-
- Gloria in excelsis Deo et pax in terra et bona voluntas hominibus...
-
-
-
- --++ Tuomas Viljanen ++ For a battle like Crecy, you do ++
- ++ Lahderanta 20 A 19 ++ not need a military genius like ++
- ++ SF-02720 Espoo FINLAND ++ Edward III. All you need is an ++
- ++ 358-0-592175 or c34657b@saha.hut.fi ++ idiot like Duke of Alencon. ++
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