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Up to Six Million People
The Unrecorded Fatalities of the 'War on Terror'
Ahmed, Nafeez http://bylinetimes.com/2021/09/15/up-to-six-million-people-the-unrecorded-fatalities-of-the-war-on-terror/
Publisher: Byline Times
Date Written: 15/09/2021
Year Published: 2021
Resource Type: Article
Nafeez Ahmed examines the direct and indirect deaths of the post 9/11 era, as a new kind of state-sanctioned mass violence became globalised and normalised.
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Earlier this month, Brown University's Costs of War project updated its rolling analysis of the number of people killed in direct violence due to the post-9/11 "War on Terror".
It found that just under a million people between 897,000 and 929,000 were killed directly due to violence across five theatres of war involving significant US and Western military involvement: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
These numbers have been widely reported as proving that around one million people have been killed in post-9/11 wars. Yet, they are extremely conservative figures.
The real death toll is far, far higher, a fact that has not been properly reported in media reports.
"The deaths we tallied are likely a vast under-count of the true toll these wars have taken on human life," said the co-author of the Costs of War project report Professor Neta Crawford noting that the tally does not incorporate indirect deaths due to the consequences of war through the destruction of civilian infrastructure.
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