File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_2004/lyotard.0410, message 53


Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:18:04 +0100
From: "steve.devos-AT-krokodile.co.uk" <steve.devos-AT-krokodile.co.uk>
Subject: iraq war - current toll


All

The below reports on the current numbers of Iraqi death count/casualties 
in the current iraq invasion.  'Actually existing democracy' seems to be 
as murderous as history suggests it always has been...

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29 October 2004

The first scientific study of the human cost of the Iraq war suggests 
that at least 100,000 Iraqis have lost their lives since their country 
was invaded in March 2003.

More than half of those who died were women and children killed in air 
strikes, researchers say. Previous estimates have put the Iraqi death 
toll at around 10,000 - ten times the 1,000 members of the British, 
American and multi-national forces who have died so far. But the study, 
published in The Lancet, suggested that Iraqi casualties could be as 
much as 100 times the coalition losses. It was also savagely critical of 
the failure by coalition forces to count Iraqi casualties.


http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=577151


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