Horrific Violence and Ethnic Cleansing in Sudan

[Rupert Pupkin]

A friend of mine asked me if I knew how many wars were going on around the world right now. I figured that there were around 7 or 8 going on. He said that he read that there are over 100 wars going on right now around the world. Many of these are in small countries that we've never heard of. They are obviously defining war very broadly and they are including any place that there are rebels launching attacks.

I was totally shocked at this number. I can't believe that there are this many wars going on, but my friend assured me that he read it correctly. I guess they are including any country that has separtist rebels that are waging any type of guerilla war even if it's a war that only includes a few attacks a year. Most of these wars don't get any publicity. Once in a while I will hear about separtist rebels in places like Chechnya and some of the other Soviet Republics. The civil war in Sri Lanka get some press once in a while. I believe there are separtist rebels fighting the government in places like the Phillipines. We know about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Israel/Palestinian conflict would be considered a war. There has been fighting in Sudan for years. I think there is still fighting in places like Somalia. I guess if we thought about it hard, we might be able to come up with 10 or 15 wars but I still don't where they come up with over 100. I guess there are separtist rebels in over half the countries in the world. There are 192 countries in the world.