May 24, 2005
We Don't Do That Here
Small numbered plaques allegedly mark anonymous graves in a cemetery on the outskirts of Andijon, Uzbekistan
(Photo: Misha Japaridze / Associated Press)
The scale of death is fiercely contested. (President Islam A.) Karimov said 32 Uzbek troops and 137 other people had been killed. An opposition party says that at least 745 civilians died in Andijon and Pakhtaabad, a border town, the next day. The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, a Vienna-based group, says Uzbek troops may have killed 1,000 unarmed people. story
~Americans know how to count their dead.
We do have problems estimating the numbers of people at certain types of political rallies. And lately we can't be bothered to estimate the numbers of enemy and civilians killed or injured or publish tallies and names of the detainees and prisoners held by our armed forces and police in our on-going war against terrorism.