At 15:06 17-8-01 +0200, I wrote:
> > No one is claiming scores, let alone thousands, of people are being
> > killed and maimed by US mines.
>
>One of the sources I cited mentions a report (IIRC, from the Army Surgeon
>General or something like that), that says that over a thousand US soldiers
>were killed by US mines, and a few thousand US soldiers were injured by US
>mines.
CORRECTION: the number of deaths is lower than I said -- that's what
happens when you rely on a rusty memory...
UPDATE:
The source in question is
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1997/gen1/General-02.htm. On this site it says:
"The Office of the Army Surgeon General reported that 305 men were killed
in action by mines out of 18,498 killed, while 2,401 were wounded in action
by mines out of 72,343 wounded in total.23"
"Smith also drew from the Surgeon General's statistics the conclusion that
more U.S. mine casualties were caused by U.S. defensive minefields than
were caused by mines encountered in offensive operations and
pursuitoperations against the enemy.26 The obvious conclusion is that U.S.
defensive minefields regularly ensnared their own men."
Jeroen
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