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Re: [pygame] Do you support The #Python Software Foundation making a statement in support of peace?
> so if a stas should be done, let's begin from the beginning of whayt is happening : 13 000 civilians killed in ukraine by neo-nazzies (government) for 8 years... a statement today MUST quote this. else it wouls be a bullshit thing.
The 13,000 figure that I believe you’re referencing is from a statement by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. This is an estimate from 2019 of the total casualties of the conflict in Donbas in Eastern Ukraine.
This estimate is not for civilian casualties, it is for total casualties. Broken down by group, the figure is
3300 civilian deaths
4000 Ukrainian armed forces dead
5500 “Other armed groups” members dead
Attributing all casualties of a war with two sides— the (Russian-backed) separatist republics and Ukraine— specifically to Ukraine seems unfair. Is Ukraine not allowed to fight a civil war? Should we discount the Russian government because they killed 7-12 million in their civil war, or the US government because 600-700 thousand soldiers were killed in their civil war?
Anyways I don’t want to be drawn into debate, I just wanted to clear up the origin of a statistic.
Here’s the source for what I said:
And a word of friendly advice: statements are more convincing when they are free of obvious grammar or spelling issues. :)
Wow, my first post to the pygame mailing list is about politics… great.
Y’all should try out the new transform.scale_by function, available in a pygame 2.1.3.dev4 release near you!