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Ravinder Makhaik

Ravinder Makhaik — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Its not about more suicides there or here, but hardened men and women in uniform committing suicides are reason enough for any nation to worry about.

Kim

Kim — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

RAVINDER:

Sorry, I can’t agree.

One Russian person kills him/herself every ten minutes in Russia (that adds up t0 60,000 per year or 41 suicides per 100,000 people — only Lithunania has more). That just about says it all, doesn’t it? This figure is four times higher than for the United States.

Russia’s problem is an urgent crisis, America’s just isn’t. Russia has a net loss from its population of up to 1 million people per year, while America is growing. Thus, if Russia doesn’t solve its problem, it will simply cease to exist.

Jayaprashanth

Jayaprashanth — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Working for long, brutal hours away from home in intense pressure and dangerous conditions is seeing it’s share of casualties in the form of scores of soldiers committing suicide. Armies across the world need to constantly rotate soldiers but that is easier said than done as acclamatisation to conditions is pretty difficult for newer sets.