Monday, September 17, 2007

Iraq Death Toll Rivals Rwanda Genocide, Cambodian Killing Fields

 

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted September 17, 2007.

A new study estimates that 1.2 million Iraqis have met violent deaths since Bush and Cheney chose to invade.

According to a new study, 1.2 million Iraqis have met violent deaths since the 2003 invasion, the highest estimate of war-related fatalities yet. The study was done by the British polling firm ORB, which conducted face-to-face interviews with a sample of over 1,700 Iraqi adults in 15 of Iraq's 18 provinces. Two provinces -- al-Anbar and Karbala -- were too dangerous to canvas, and officials in a third, Irbil, didn't give the researchers a permit to do their work. The study's margin of error was plus-minus 2.4 percent.

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Source: AlterNet: War on Iraq: Iraq Death Toll Rivals Rwanda Genocide, Cambodian Killing Fields

 

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