How is 48% an "overwhelming majority"? John Kerry received 48% of the popular vote in the 2004 Presidential election--I wouldn't call that an "overwhelming majority."
It's a typo, it should have read 58%:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_troubles#Casualties_:_Brief_Summary
Between 1969 and 2001, 3,523 were killed as a result of the Troubles:
2055 by republican groups
1020 by loyalist groups
368 by British and Irish security forces
80 by groups or persons unknown.