Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Top ten longest ongoing wars

This time I'm going to write about the ongoing wars around the world.
Some countries just started fighting, and still have history of fighting, while some countries are not fighting at all. And there are some countries that have been part of a war for almost a hundred years.

There are nine major conflicts that are still going on and have more than a 1000 deaths per year.
Something that we should notice about the wars of these countries, is that all of them are internal.
This is the list of the nine countries that are still fighting (not on and off).

- Columbia is located in northwestern America and has been fighting since 1964 and has about 200 thousand deaths. Fighting has been going between the Colombian government and the revolutionary arm forces of Columbia and the national liberation army.

- Afghanistan is located in the Middle East, and has been fighting since 1978. Fighting has been going on between different warlords for the country's control and recently in 2000, the US also entered the war. Has had 3 million deaths.

- Somalia has been fighting for 21years. Somalia is fighting for the control of the country. And has about 400 thousand deaths.

- War in Pakistan started in 2004 and ever since has been going on. Has almost 39 thousand deaths.

- In Mexico, 60 thousand people has been killed. The armed conflicts are between rival drug cartles that are fighting each other for regional control, and Mexican government forces.

- Sudanese nomadic conflicts have been going on since 2009 and has been between the nomadic tribes, the fights are breaking out over resources, including land, cattle and drinking water. Sudanese war has had 6 thousand deaths.

- Sudan internal conflict started in 2011, it is between the Army of Sudan and the Sudan revolutionary front for liberation. The war had around 2000 deaths.

- The Syrian uprising is a violent internal conflict with 10 thousand deaths.

- Iraq insurgency has been going on since 2011 and has about a 1500 deaths. Iraq insurgency after U.S. withdrawal relates to continuing violent terror activities by Iraq.

sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_conflicts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War

1 comment:

  1. Really good work Oliver- what do you think makes these particular wars so persistent?

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