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Karen, There is the dubious 98,000 (based on 21
bodies including combatants). The Economist dropped this to 60,000 (to
avoid embarrassing the JHU types)? The group below uses the Lancet figures
to make it “as many as 39,000”. The Iraq Body Count make it 15,437 with
an additional 7,350 during the war. The only count is the IBC. If you read my
posts to Lawry, they contained the methodology – also the names of a
bunch of mostly British and Americans professional people who in common were
anti-war. I called them “bleeding heart liberals” and “tree huggers”
which, as I expected, aroused Lawry! I was really saying they had impeccable
credentials. However, they should be coming up with
higher figures, so propaganda needs can be satisfied. As they don’t, the
people who should be supporting them sneer at their results. The IBC tell us that the actual figures
are no doubt higher. Then they go back to their job which is not fantasy
projection, but the counted and confirmed casualties checked through their several
dozen sources. Harry ******************************* of 818
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Behalf Of Karen Watters Cole For your files. Report:
Conflict deaths underestimated UNITED NATIONS -- Global
estimates have routinely underestimated the true number of people killed in
armed conflict, including during the war in The survey said that it was possible that as many as 39,000 Iraqis have died as a
result of the conflict in It derived its estimates from a study published
in the Lancet medical journal last October, which estimated 98,000 more
civilians had died in Monday's report, from the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies, said between 80,000 and 108,000 people were killed as a direct
result of conflict around the world in 2003 - two to four times higher than
current estimates. The estimates did not differentiate between civilian and
military deaths. It said death tolls are usually based on
misleading official estimates or media reports gathered despite intense efforts
to keep reporters away from the fighting. "Examples of politically
motivated misdirection about conflict casualties are numerous," the report
said. "Traditionally, this was called propaganda; the modern word is
spin." Other recent examples of such distortion include
The report said that between 60 and 90 percent of all deaths
during conflict are caused by small arms and light weapons - everything from pistols to rocket-propelled grenades to assault
rifles. That number highlights just how grave a concern small arms are to
conflict. And when small arms are not used directly, they can still play a
crucial role - as during the In prepared remarks to the conference, U.N.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan said more than 60 nations had drawn up bodies to
coordinate national policy on fighting the illicit trade of small arms.
"But we must not relax our efforts to combat the scourge of illicit small
arms and light weapons, which continue to kill, mail and displace scores of
thousands of innocent people every year," Annan's statement said. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=UN%20Conflict%20Deaths |
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