- Written by Dave Lindorff
U.S. Military Has Killed Up to 238,000 Iraqi Civilians
A just-released study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, published in the current issue of the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet, reports that the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq has led to the deaths of between 426,000 and 794,000 Iraqis. This is a substantial increase over the 100,000 dead that the same research group found through 2004, based upon a smaller survey, and it represents an astonishing 2.5 percent of the country's total population.
The grim news was widely--though not universally--reported in the U.S.
media (my local paper, the Philadelphia Inquirer, blacked it out), but
few news organizations reported the most disturbing finding of the
study, which was that 31 percent of those killed were acatually slain
by U.S. and "coalition" forces (actually by U.S. forces, since most of
the other foreign forces working with the U.S., with the exception of
the British, have not played combat roles, and even the British have
largely operated in the south where fighting has been much less severe.
That means U.S. forces have, since the March 19, 2003 invasion, killed between 132,000 and 246,000 Iraqis.
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