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The 20 Most Homicidal Countries In The World

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The United Nations and the World Health Organization have released their 2014 Global Status Report on Violence Prevention, which paints a bleak and detailed picture of murder and violence around the world.

Worldwide in 2012, there were 475,000 murder victims, 60% of whom were males between 15 and 44 years old. Half of all homicide victims are killed by a firearm, and Latin America is the world's most murderous region.

The global homicide rate for 2012 stood at 6.7 per 100,000 inhabitants — slightly lower than the 2011 rate of 6.9.

 

20. Zimbabwe

20. Zimbabwe
Sokwanele - Zimbabwe/Flickr

A Zimbabwean police officer chasing a demonstrator in 2005.

15.1 murders per 100,000 people

33% killed by firearms

Political violence has become a fact of life in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe has ruled with a heavy hand for more than 30 years.

Mugabe ordered the takeover of white-owned farms in 2000, causing an economic collapse that still has lingering effects. Unemployment hit 90% by 2008.

19. Iraq

19. Iraq
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An Iraqi civilian injured in a vehicle-borne IED explosion in 2008 in Mosul.

18.6 murders per 100,000 people

45% killed by firearms

Close to 8,000 civilians were killed in the first two months of the Iraq war, according to Iraq Body Count. Since 2003, the number of civilians killed every month has lowered significantly, but this war-torn nation remains one of the most homicidal on earth. 

The civilian death rate remained relatively low from 2008 through 2012 but has crept back up since 2013 and the rise of the Islamic State. Roughly 1,351 Iraqi civilians were killed every month in 2014.

18. Panama

18. Panama
Daniel LeClair/Reuters

A woman in a cemetery in Corozal, Panama, in 2007.

19.3 murders per 100,000 people

80% killed by firearms

Panama's gangs and drug traffickers are responsible for roughly 23% of its homicides each year, according to a 2013 Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) Crime and Safety report. The country is still safer than some other Central American countries, like Honduras and Guatemala. 

 

17. Swaziland

17. Swaziland
Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters

Protesters in Mbabane, the Swaziland capital, in 2011.

19.4 murders per 100,000 people

56% killed by firearms

One of the world's last remaining absolute monarchies has one of the highest homicide rates in Africa. That may be partly because of its low prosecution rates, the Times of Swaziland reported.

Pro-reform protesters frequently take to the streets demanding democracy and the removal of King Mswati III, who has ruled for 25 years and has a fortune of $200 million. 

16. Namibia

16. Namibia
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Indigenous Namibian women.

19.7 murders per 100,000 people

47% killed by firearms

Gender-based violence is a huge problem in this coastal country in southern Africa. Women are disproportionately victims of crimes of passion, and rapes and murders of women and children are reported almost weekly, the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa reported. 

15. Guyana

15. Guyana
Flickr/Anna M

South Rupununi, Guyana.

20.2 murders per 100,000 people

49% killed by firearms

Guyana is one of the few Caribbean countries that are part of South America. The government has made it difficult for the average person to own a firearm legally, which has caused more weapons to go unlicensed. It's relatively easy to get handguns, machetes, and knives, according to OSAC's 2013 Crime and Safety Report.

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The 20 Most Homicidal Countries In The World

 

 
 

The 20 Most Homicidal Countries In The World

Follow Business Insider:
mexico drug violenceEduardo Verdugo/Reuters

The United Nations and the World Health Organization have released their 2014 Global Status Report on Violence Prevention, which paints a bleak and detailed picture of murder and violence around the world.

Worldwide in 2012, there were 475,000 murder victims, 60% of whom were males between 15 and 44 years old. Half of all homicide victims are killed by a firearm, and Latin America is the world's most murderous region.

The global homicide rate for 2012 stood at 6.7 per 100,000 inhabitants — slightly lower than the 2011 rate of 6.9.

 

20. Zimbabwe

20. Zimbabwe
Sokwanele - Zimbabwe/Flickr

A Zimbabwean police officer chasing a demonstrator in 2005.

15.1 murders per 100,000 people

33% killed by firearms

Political violence has become a fact of life in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe has ruled with a heavy hand for more than 30 years.

Mugabe ordered the takeover of white-owned farms in 2000, causing an economic collapse that still has lingering effects. Unemployment hit 90% by 2008.

19. Iraq

19. Iraq
Flickr/The U.S. Army

An Iraqi civilian injured in a vehicle-borne IED explosion in 2008 in Mosul.

18.6 murders per 100,000 people

45% killed by firearms

Close to 8,000 civilians were killed in the first two months of the Iraq war, according to Iraq Body Count. Since 2003, the number of civilians killed every month has lowered significantly, but this war-torn nation remains one of the most homicidal on earth. 

The civilian death rate remained relatively low from 2008 through 2012 but has crept back up since 2013 and the rise of the Islamic State. Roughly 1,351 Iraqi civilians were killed every month in 2014.

18. Panama

18. Panama
Daniel LeClair/Reuters

A woman in a cemetery in Corozal, Panama, in 2007.

19.3 murders per 100,000 people

80% killed by firearms

Panama's gangs and drug traffickers are responsible for roughly 23% of its homicides each year, according to a 2013 Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) Crime and Safety report. The country is still safer than some other Central American countries, like Honduras and Guatemala. 

 

17. Swaziland

17. Swaziland
Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters

Protesters in Mbabane, the Swaziland capital, in 2011.

19.4 murders per 100,000 people

56% killed by firearms

One of the world's last remaining absolute monarchies has one of the highest homicide rates in Africa. That may be partly because of its low prosecution rates, the Times of Swaziland reported.

Pro-reform protesters frequently take to the streets demanding democracy and the removal of King Mswati III, who has ruled for 25 years and has a fortune of $200 million. 

16. Namibia

16. Namibia
AinoTuominen/Pixabay

Indigenous Namibian women.

19.7 murders per 100,000 people

47% killed by firearms

Gender-based violence is a huge problem in this coastal country in southern Africa. Women are disproportionately victims of crimes of passion, and rapes and murders of women and children are reported almost weekly, the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa reported. 

15. Guyana

15. Guyana
Flickr/Anna M

South Rupununi, Guyana.

20.2 murders per 100,000 people

49% killed by firearms

Guyana is one of the few Caribbean countries that are part of South America. The government has made it difficult for the average person to own a firearm legally, which has caused more weapons to go unlicensed. It's relatively easy to get handguns, machetes, and knives, according to OSAC's 2013 Crime and Safety Report.

Old Kai: Chronicles of Guyanaâ€ĶPNC/R denies having links with criminal underworld

 

–But ‘Brey’ begs to differ; even has incriminating evidence to prove it OLD Kai has a message for the opposition: It is better you shut your mouth and let certain issues go, as they will do more damage to you the longer they are in the limelight. Case in point: The recent comments by PPP General Secretary, Clement Rohee, who alluded to the nexus between the opposition parties, specifically the PNC/R (which is now disguised as APNU) and the criminal underworld.That party’s former Member of Parliament and one-time Mayor in Linden is now serving a life sentence in a US jail for plotting to blow up the JFK International Airport.

This fact was laid bare by Rohee, as concerns continue to pile up regarding the motive behind the deliberate delay by the AFC/APNU partnership in passing the ammended Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Bill. Rather than keep their mouths shut and try their best to ignore this damaging revelation, in the hope that it will soon pass over so they could get back to their scheming ways, the PNC/R chose to issue a statement attacking Rohee for his comments. Amazingly, the PNC/R also denied any involvement or support for criminals, or any criminal network or enterprise! So, what this means, then, is that their action of publicly draping the National Flag over the casket of notorious criminal, Linden ‘Blackie’ London, at the Square of the Revolution a few years ago, did not actually happen! Or that that party’s Chairman representing the criminals in Court during the crime-wave, including the one accused of killing the little girl, Christne Sukra ,on the East Coast, did not happen either! And neither did the same PNC/R Chairman and others representing the drug dealers to get them to escape justice, turning up at the Police station the moment a drug accused is arrested to secure their release, and in the process thwarting the investigative efforts to get at their accomplices, including the ‘big fishes’, did not happen! And what about the infamous recording of the former Police Commissioner now turned APNU Member of Parliament (Shadow Minister of Security) and PNC/R Chairman (Shadow Minister of Legal Affairs) discussing how they will plant drugs on a woman; the disappearance of a large sum of foreign currency (legitimate or illegitimate) from Congress Place; or diverting Police attention from the real perpetrators of the Agricola massacre? Were those just a figment of the nation’s imagination? In hindsight, it is now very relevant to question whether that large sum of foreign currency which disappeared from Congress Place was acquired through some illegitimate process, and intended to finance something. All that is relatively recent. Now, let’s look back in time at the discovery of the X13 terrorist plan by the PNC at Congress Place in the 1960s, which detailed an elaborate network designed to destabilise the PPP Government of Dr. Cheddi Jagan. It is opportune now to start republishing excerpts of that report, so the nation can be reminded, and the youths can be aware, of what we are dealing with; more so, if you live by the adage that ‘the PNC can never change its stripes despite all its name changes’. In all of this, the PNC/R, in its statement, steadfastly maintains that the PPP General Secretary was way off the mark, as the party is innocent of any wrongdoing; rather they cannot even harm a fly, as they are lily white angels. Remarkably, in a strange twist of fate, while the PNC/R was claiming innocence, its former General Secretary and Member of Parliament, Aubrey Norton, was accusing executives of the party of being involved in illegal activities, the evidence of which, he claims, he is in possession of. Very damning indeed! Old Kai wonders how they will explain this away. This revelation further serves to confirm the contention of the PPP General Secretary, and brings us right back to the AML/CFT Bill. It has been several months now, and more than one missed deadline which has placed Guyana on an international financial blacklist, and yet the opposition cannot tell this nation what exactly their concerns are with the Bill, and why are they taking so long to address them. In actuality, the actions of the opposition in the Sub-Committee tasked with reviewing the Bill (once again), where they have a majority, would be a good lesson for aspiring drama students. If they are not staging planned walk-out of meetings because the snacks are not enough, they are suddenly more busy than the President, so they cannot attend meetings; or when they are actually at a meeting, the previous day happenings in ‘The Young and the Restless’ takes centrestage of discussion rather than the nation’s business. Just imagine! Our taxes are paying these people in APNU and the AFC, providing them with all the perks, so that they can mismanage and deliberately sabotage our affairs! Their delay in passing this Bill is an attempt to protect their vested interests. Old Kai is now wondering how much more ‘foreign currency’ they have to ship out of Congress Place before they decided to support the anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism Bill.

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FM

Rohee did not lay bare the fact that the largest group of criminals are the police and army. The gang leaders have been known for a while and are even paid for by the current government. One is commonly referred to as their commander in chief.

 

There is absolutely no evidence to link any opposition party to criminal gangs. But there is ample evidence in support of the fact that the ruling party has been at the head of crimes in Guyana. Even the president was seen sitting in a car whilst the driver was waiving an unlicensed firearm.

Mr.T

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