Fwd: 3. Worse Than Hitler

[Frederic Madre]

>LONDON, April 11: A front-runner in London mayor's election, Mr Ken
>Livingstone, has claimed that global capitalism kills more people each year
>than were killed by Adolf Hitler and held IMF and the World Bank responsible
>for causing the death of millions by not easing the Third World's debt
>burden.
>
>Mr Livingstone, a member of the Labour Party's left wing, who is fighting
>the mayor election as an independent candidate, said in an interview with a
>local magazine, New Musical Expressy, that each year the international
>financial system kills more people than World War Two. "But at least Hitler
>was mad, you know?"
>
>Mr Livingstone, who has served as London's mayor in the past and is very
>popular among the Londoners for the work he had done at that time before
>being removed by Mrs Thatcher's government when she scrapped the London
>assembly, had earlier supported the people who had held a violent
>demonstration in London last year against capitalism.
>
>Asked by a reader whether he still believes that the bosses of the
>International Monetary Fund should "die painfully in their beds?", he
>replied: "The IMF and the World Bank are still appalling and now the World
>Trade Organization, too. All over the world, people die unnecessarily
>because of the international financial system.
>
>"Susan George, the economist not the actress, estimates that in any year
>since 1981 between 15 and 20 million people have died unnecessarily from the
>debt burden because Third World governments have to cut back on clean water
>and health programmes."
>
>
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