Chart of the day: Kashmir fatalities

From WSJ story on Indians considering limits on use of military force.  Accompanying picture looks right out of Israel’s intifada database:  rock-throwing young males wearing bandanas to hide their faces.

 What attracted me to the chart:  the tremendous drop in fatalities of all sorts (militants, security forces, civs) since the dangerous peak in 2001, which almost lead to war.  About 4500 deaths that year, and then the drop to maybe 250 in 2009, or a decline of virtually 95%.

But, of course, we know this must be a lie, because warfare and casualties are rising the world over!  I know this because, on the back-office Wikipedia page where the authors of my bio argue over my ideas, one person wrote that my whole Core-Gap stuff is bunk because conflicts around the world are growing in number and intensity.  And you know that must be true, because it’s on Wikipedia.

Civilian deaths last year were less than 100—a historic low, so yeah, I guess it makes sense to rein in the troops a bit.