Over 100,000 Iraqi Civilian Deaths
There are stats on how many fighterjets, soldiers and US casualties – about 1,100 so far – but just how many civilians have been killed in Iraq….? A new study has found that over 100,000 people – mostly women and children – have been killed since the US-led invasion of Iraq in March of last year. While Saddam Hussein has been attributed with the deaths of up to 300,000 of his own people, over 23 years. The researchers went to 988 households in 33 regions of the country and then compared civilian mortality rates before and after the invasion. They found that the risk of death was 2.5 times higher than after the invasion. However the vast majority of those households surveyed said that they didn’t feel an immediate withdrawal of allied forces was the answer because – although problematic – the US forces are currently the only source of stability in Iraq. Cinnamon Nippard spoke to Dr Les Roberts, Co-Author of the report, and epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in the US.