Why no outrage?
Iraq Body Count.
The War’s Toll on Iraqi Civilians
Forgotten Casualties.
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| Human Rights Watch cited two other attempts to quantify the dead. The Los Angeles Times did a survey of 27 hospitals in the Baghdad area after the U.S. invasion and found that at least 1,700 civilians died. In June 2003, the Associated Press canvassed 60 of Iraq’s 124 hospitals and calculated that at least 3,420 civilians died in the first months of the war. AP described the count as “fragmentary” and said, “the complete toll - if it is ever tallied - is sure to be significantly higher.” Since then, other figures have been floated. Commentators for the Jordan Times and the Daily Star in Beirut, Lebanon, have cited an estimate of 30,000 deaths. That is the figure disseminated by the Iraqi Human Rights Organization, an independent group in Baghdad. A more conservative figure comes from iraqbodycount.net, a British Web site that compiles media reports on Iraqi civilian deaths. Based on such reporting, the site says there have been a minimum of 12,778 civilian deaths in Iraq and a maximum of 14,820. |