More info can be found here http://academic.udayton.edu/race/02rights/intern01.htm
The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 began providing eligible Japanese Americans with an apology from the U.S. government and $20,000 in reparations for the loss of liberty and destruction of property suffered at the hands of U.S. officials.
So we now have a ball-park figure for what human liberty costs. in 1988 dollars. So if we use that on dead Vietnamese killed you can see that numbers are going to quickly rise.
By the way that figure is also why the US will NEVER apologise or take responsibility for slavery. The cost per person has already been set by precedent. Imagine the payoff total on both sides of the Atlantic.
Kiggs
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 08:47, Terah Kaggwa wrote:
It is simple. These are American lives we are talking about, not simple Japanese people. Over a million Vietnamese died in the Vietnam war - besides Vietnam being carpet bombed for I do not know how many years... but again it was cheaper. T. ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Mark Tinka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: lug_: OT: Costliest Man-Made Tragedy Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 18:07:12 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from orion.kym.net ([217.113.72.32]) by mc9-f11.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6824); Sun, 18 Jan 2004 08:09:00 -0800 Received: by orion.kym.net (Postfix)id 42B49C28; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:08:28 +0300 (EAT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])by orion.kym.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 252C5C24for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:08:28 +0300 (EAT) Received: by orion.kym.net (Postfix, from userid 28)id 988DFBD1; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:08:25 +0300 (EAT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])by orion.kym.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC001C24for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:08:24 +0300 (EAT) Received: from cedrickjr.africaonline.co.sz (unknown [212.85.220.8])by orion.kym.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF7BF9C6for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:08:20 +0300 (EAT) Received: from mhloli.africaonline.co.sz ([212.85.220.9] helo=mhloli)by cedrickjr.africaonline.co.sz with esmtp (Exim 4.12)id 1AiFZ9-0000Zf-00for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 18:14:23 +0200 Received: from webworks.iafrica.sz ([196.15.232.3])by mhloli (MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.2 ) ;Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:07:50 +0200 (SAST) X-Message-Info: vAu4ZEtdRij3XmuhdT+knYAhrFQ+qLQd Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Africa Online Swaziland Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4927.1200 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8 Precedence: bulk X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Jan 2004 16:09:11.0139 (UTC) FILETIME=[68BF6330:01C3DDDD] Sorry for the OT, but I'm in conflict here; http://www.airdisaster.com/special/special-0911.shtml says that the September 11, 2001 hijackings that saw the destruction of the World Trade Centre have been proven as the costliest man-made tragedy EVER, at an estimated $30 billion. Just wondering, does this surpass the Hiroshima & Nagasaki atomic bombings decades earlier, ordered by the then US president, Truman (man-made) on August the 6th and 9th, 1945? Mind you, the effects of these bombings are still being felt by the citizens of these locations, ecnomically, socially, and in health. How can that be quanitified, in billions, if not gazillions? Regards, Mark Tinka Technical Manager, Africa Online Swaziland --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
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