Study puts civilian toll in Iraq at over 100,000

international | anti-war / imperialism | other press Friday October 29, 2004 17:36 by Michael Hennigan - Finfacts.com

More than 100,000 civilians have probably died as direct or indirect consequences of the US-led invasion of Iraq, according to a study by a research team at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.

Les Roberts of the Johns Hopkins University led a team of U.S. and British analysts in getting a death count. Their work will be published in the online edition of the British medical journal Lancet.

The Roberts estimate is strikingly higher than previous ones. A group of British academics called Iraq Bodycount, which compiles figures from witness accounts and media reports, put the number of civilian deaths at between 14,160 and 16,289.

Roberts did not consider civilian deaths in Fallujah, where two thirds of the violent deaths recorded have occurred.


The study is available free on the website of the British medical journal 'The Lancet '

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http://www.thelancet.com/journal