Thursday, October 28, 2004
Study: 100,000 Excess Civilian Iraqi Deaths Since War
Open link in new window: Guardian unlimited: 'War raised Iraqi death rate by 100,000' :
As many as 100,000 more Iraqi civilians have died in the 18 months since the US-led invasion last year than would have been expected in the period before the war, a study claimed today.Researchers said the chances of a violent death were 58 times higher after the invasion than before it.
The study, whose results were published today by the respected Lancet medical journal, was based on interviews with Iraqis, most of them doctors. The findings were compared with the pre-war death rate.
The researchers came from Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University in the US and the Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad. The report conceded that the data the projections were based on was of "limited precision".
