"Operations by U.S. and multinational forces and Iraqi police are killing twice as many Iraqis - most of them civilians - as attacks by insurgents, according to statistics compiled by the Iraqi Health Ministry and obtained exclusively by Knight Ridder. According to the ministry, the interim Iraqi government recorded 3,487 Iraqi deaths in 15 of the country's 18 provinces from April 5 - when the ministry began compiling the data - until Sept. 19. Of those, 328 were women and children. Another 13,720 Iraqis were injured, the ministry said."
Read the whole sad, sobering Knight-Ridder report.
Posted by armand at September 25, 2004 02:11 PM | TrackBack | Posted to International Affairsand it gets worse: "The ministry defines children as anyone younger than 12." how would we define children if it were our country under occupation. yet another number woefully misrepresented/-defined.
(and don't forget to apply to the 3,500/7,000/12,000 numbers the juan cole 11X multiplier, for a analagous proportion of dead in this country.)
Posted by: joshua at September 29, 2004 10:09 AM | PERMALINK