Knives were also used in 237 rapes, compared with 213 in 2009, 1,454 threats to kill, compared with 1,419 in 2009, and 200 killings, compared with 197 in 2009.
Relative resistance factors were calculated for the sub-populations by determining the DMF required for 90% kill compared with that of the B sub-population.
Indeed, in animal models simultaneous blockade of both receptors has been shown to result in increased cell kill compared with blockade of either receptor alone.
(In 2009, according to NATO figures, 282 Afghan soldiers were killed, compared with 521 coalition soldiers).
Between June and August, 436 people have been killed, compared with 150 during the same months in 2008.
In the past 18 months over 5,000 have been killed, compared with fewer than 200 in the previous three years.
The report also said that fewer people were wounded by police bullets last year, but 13 people were killed, compared with 10 in 2007.
Earl Witter, Jamaica's public defender, an official independent role, has raised questions about the relatively high number of civilians killed compared with the small number of weapons seized.
In the last four months of last year, around 1,300 Iraqi policemen were killed, compared with 750 in the first nine months of the year; some 1,500 recruits have been killed, nearly 800 of them in a four-week period towards the end of last year.
Ali Alfoneh, senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies, who tracks the number of Iranian deaths in Syria, said the death count had been particularly high in 2015, with 60 to 70 Iranians killed, compared with a total of 140 killed since the conflict began.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] and HamasSIR – You offered four articles in the November 24th issue on the conflict between Hamas and Israel and repeated the same statistic, that at least 140 Palestinians were killed compared with only five Israelis.
