Coal in China, Oil in Iraq, and Justice for All
According to various news sources, such as NHK, Kyodo News Service, and The Epoch Times, China has a big trouble on its coal mine industry.
China is the largest coal production country in the world followed by the U.S., but every year they have more than 6,000 deaths in coal mines in official statistics. According to other private information source, the death toll is more than 20,000 every year.
The mortality percentage of victims in China's coal mines is 100 times larger than that of America's.
In addition, the number of those killed each year in various accidents including traffic accidents in China is said to be about 140,000.
To have a population of 1.3 billion is different from having a 300 million population or a 120 million population.
Nothing can be proportional, if a total amount of a certain indicator surpasses a certain threshold level.
What is worse, according to a certain analysis, the reason of this large number of casualties in China's coal mines is its bad management run by managers who are forcing innocent laborers to work in bad conditions, while paying very low salaries, so that they can make an undue but huge profit.
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Maybe a number of civilians killed in Iraq, directly linked to armed clashes of any scale, every year after 2003 might be at the level of the yearly death toll of Chinese coal-mine workers.
Iraq has a population of only 24 million, one fiftieth of China's 1.3 billion population.
No comparison looks meaningful, but people are dying in daylight on dry land as well as in darkness of mines.
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China has large coal reserves and Iraq has large oil reserves.
They should use it for security and safety of its people, respectively.
I cannot find any other reasons than this for the very natural gift God Almighty has given to both the countries, respectively.
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