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If the
entire population of Cambridge were wiped out, I imagine even the
tabloids would find space on the front page to mention it. Clearly if
the same number of people die as a result of the war in Iraq that is
"not news".
The Americans and the government in Iraq have not bothered to count the
civilian casualties in the war. However Dr Gil Burnham and his team
from John Hopkins University in the US compared mortality rates in Iraq
before and after the March 2003 invasion. The results published in the
Lancet in the UK revealed the figure of 100000 casualties.
GIL BURNHAM(quoted on ABC): "And what we found was that mortality rates
or death rates had increased substantially, and the thing that
accounted for the increase in the death rates was violence."
"Much of this violence was – in fact most of it – related to the
coalition forces being present, and the increased deaths were almost
exclusively related to – not exclusively – but very heavily related to
aerial bombardments of urban populations."
The headline in the pro-war Sun newspaper on this day? "Chelsea Sack
Mutu"
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