> On Tue, 7 May 2002, Michael McIntyre wrote:
>
> > Pakistan's sectarian violence tends to be relatively limited?
>
> Limited, as in (1) happening mostly within Pakistan
Mostly within Pakistan, if you ignore Kashmir, Afghanistan and Bangladesh (when Pakistan broke up).
>and (2) not reaching
> the scale of Cambodia or Ruanda.
May be not, but hundreds of thousands dead, if not more.
>life in the global periphery
> is pretty violent even in the best of days, but that's another story.
There is considerable violence in the 'periphery', but 'periphery' has yet to originate worldwars, holocaust, Gulags.
Ulhas