The Fool wrote:
>
> > From: Richard Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > The Fool said:
> >
> > > the Thugs systematically killed more than an order of magnitude more
> > > people (over a very long period of time) than the numbers you just
> > > listed. All for kali.
>
> Ok a slight exaggeration, but still within the smae magnitude or so.
>
> > The only figures I could find for Thuggee cult deaths stated that
> > "possible as many as 2 million" were strangled by the cult between 1550
> > and 1853 (i.e. between early Moghul times and the height of the British
> > Raj); and that 30,000 to 40,000 were killed a year since the founding
> of
> > the cult in the 13th century. Also on the religious deaths front, the
> > Aztecs sacrificed as many as 20,000 people each year (a figure roughly
> > comparable to the human sacrifices by the Gun Cult each year in modern
> > North America). Those are all scary numbers, but far short of the rate
> > of state murder in the Soviet Union.
>
> Something like 35000 to 50000 murders per year, for some where between
> 500 and 1000 years, going back at least as far as the 1200's.
>
> more info here:
> http://thenewamerican.com/tna/1998/vo14no15/vo14no15_unmasked.htm
Comparing in terms of absolute numbers may be comparing apples to
oranges. A more telling statistic might be the *rate* of murder in each
case.
Can anyone come up with that data?
Julia
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