As the world’s leaders came together for Remembrance Day, there was a scent of hypocrisy: commemorating the mass casualties of two catastrophic world wars while simultaneously waging new ones.    The Bridge MAG. Image

In November The Bridge Magazine editorial focuses on true crimes, allowing readers to understand what goes on inside serial killers’ minds in a bid to prevent more people becoming their victims.

This November, analysis and statistics on world civilian casualties due to bad politics, lies, propaganda and war brings politicians out on top as the most dangerous types of people, not only on a par with but actually above the common psychopath.

According to the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, Sweden, and the Centre for the Study of Civil War at the International Peace Research Institute, there have been

‘a total of approximately 218,000 events of conflict and organized violence in the world between January 1989 and December 2015’.

The dataset covers individual incidents of armed conflict and organized violence such as clashes, battles and attacks against civilians globally. The data is built to be globally consistent and comparable.

As such, it opens access to easy investigations allowing, for example, local-level analyses of cases and countries as different as Sri Lanka and Iraq or the Democratic Republic of Congo and Israel/Palestine together.

Most conflicts have resulted in at least 1,000 battle-related deaths in a single year.

Civilian casualties are true crimes and politicians should be held to account.

London arms trade fair- the world’s biggest arms fair. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) found that the UK was second only to the United States in terms of generating money from the arms trade. The Bridge MAG. Image

Death tolls from armed conflicts are, of course, significantly more catastrophic than those that result from the crimes of serial killers.

In Roman Catholic culture, the month of November is the month of souls in Purgatory, when the Church commemorates all her faithful children who have departed from this life but have not yet attained the joys of heaven.

Remembrance has become part of modern British life, culture and heritage. Also referred to as Poppy Day or Armistice Day, Remembrance Day is observed in Commonwealth countries, including Australia and Canada.

But this November, we should reflect on the fact that politicians cause more loss of  civilians than terrorists, serial killers or medical diseases.

What is the point of politicians standing on ceremony to mourn the deaths of millions in the world wars when they are at the same time waging or provoking wars in their own time?…

On arms trade, war, terrorism and blood money.

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