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Originally Posted by silomGWM
If you Google you will find that the murder rate (that is number of murders per thousand of population) is higher in Thailand than in the USA and has been for a very long time.
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-- I did just that:
http://www.nationmaster.com/
01.-
Colombia.........0.617847
per 1,000 persons;
02.- RSA. .............0.496008;
03.- Jamaica .........0.324196;
14.- TH. .............. 0.0800798;
17.- Seychelles ..... 0.0739025, (vacation there, anyone?);
24.- USofA. .......... 0.042802;
46.- Great Britain ....0.0140633;
64.-
Qatar.............0.00115868.
- source: 7th. UN. Svy. of crime-trends - 1998-2000..
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E&OE!
-- From an admittedly amnesis memory of reading
http://www.baht-stop.com
wch. is basically Pataya-centric - quite several or MORE months ago - the chances of a
farang dying there from some unexplained death are significantly higher if one is/was a Brit.! For some strange and unexplained reason
not a stat. that HBM's. Embassy in BKK. is all that keen to make known ;-(.