Originally posted by dub
9/11 Wars In Iraq, Afghanistan, And Pakistan Killed 500,000 People: Brown University Study
Zero Hedge
November 10, 2018
A shocking
new study produced by Brown University finds that
between 480,000 and 507,000 people were killed during America’s Post-9/11 Wars. The study examined the three "war on terror" conflicts of
Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan — the latter an extension of the Afghan war and focus of US drone attacks.
The half million figure accounts for both combatant and civilian deaths from direct fighting and war violence, however
the number could be much higher as the study didn't account for the perhaps far higher number of civilians killed through infrastructure damage, such as hospitals or water supplies becoming inoperable, or other indirect results of the wars.
Tragically,
civilians make upover 50% of the roughly 500,000 killed, and the study estimates further that both US-backed foreign forces and opposition militants each sustained over 100,000 deaths.
In terms of American forces, the report finds that
over 60,000 US troops were either killed or wounded within the three post 9/11 conflicts. This includes 6,951 US military personnel killed in Afghanistan and Iraq since US invasions of those countries in 2001 and 2003.
Concerning the now seventeen year long "forgotten war" in Afghanistan, the study concluded,
according to VOA:
Some estimates in the past compiled by independent watchdog groups and polling organizations have put the death toll in Iraq alone at
over one million people.
God Bless America, the nation that invented the concept of Freedom. Freedom to use its poor to give their lives as well as to test its military technology in massive war crimes.
