Irak

[Schneemann]

Eine nicht unumstrittene neue Studie erklärt, dass seit dem Einmarsch der von den USA geführten Koalitionstruppen im Irak im März 2003 mehr als 650.000 Menschen den Tod auf gewaltsame Art und Weise gefunden haben oder infolge der Nachwirkungen des Krieges (auch an Krankheiten, etc.) gestorben sein sollen.

Dies meldet CNN:

Disputed study claims 655,000 Iraqi deaths

POSTED: 0657 GMT (1457 HKT), October 11, 2006

NEW YORK (AP) -- A controversial new study contends nearly 655,000 Iraqis have died because of the war, suggesting a far higher death toll than other estimates.

The timing of the survey's release, just a few weeks before the U.S. congressional elections, led one expert to call it "politics."

In the new study, researchers attempt to calculate how many more Iraqis have died since March 2003 than one would expect without the war. Their conclusion, based on interviews of households and not a body count, is that about 600,000 died from violence, mostly gunfire. They also found a small increase in deaths from other causes like heart disease and cancer.

"Deaths are occurring in Iraq now at a rate more than three times that from before the invasion of March 2003," Dr. Gilbert Burnham, lead author of the study, said in a statement.

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Hmm, also die Angabe, dass alleine 600.000 Menschen der anhaltenden Gewalt zum Opfer gefallen sein sollen, ist meiner Ansicht nach deutlich zu hoch gegriffen. Verschiedene andere Quellen schätzen die Zahl der Opfer auf 30.000 bis 194.000 (Höchstzahl).

Schneemann.