We've already discovered, just so far, the remains of 400,000 people in mass graves.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Blair states the scale of human loss in a conflict or humanitarian crisis.
- In plain terms
- Hundreds of thousands of bodies have been found in mass graves.
- What can you take from it?
- War leaves massive human costs.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do we remember large scale loss?
- What does this count imply?
Another view
Numbers can dehumanize individual loss in a crisis.
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