The Straits Times this morning is reporting that 200 ‘witches’ killed each year in India: women lynched after being accused of practising witchcraft. This sounds like a terrible number, but it’s an example of a statistic that can get us carried away. Any one falsely accused and executed is a terrible thing, and should be worked against. But 200 out of 1._ billion people is a very small minority and requires a fairly specialized work to target and stop it.
Bride-burning (sati) for example kills more than 2,500 women p.a. in India. Always make sure to put statistics in perspective.
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