>Ok, I know why the U.S. is high, but Belgium? What's up with that? (The chart is at the very end of the article)
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>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6937537.stm

Someone must have sent a false letter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homicide_rate#2000s

year 2002
- USA : 5.6 (about same as your link)
- Belgium : 1.5 (your link : 7.06)

And more interesting: since 2002, there haven't been any ! (according to the chart this is)