US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan killed hundreds of thousands of civilians
Evidence
During the more than seven year long period prior to this ghastly event, the US-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, Israel’s targeted assassination of Palestinians (with large numbers of collateral victims in both Palestine and Lebanon), and the incarceration of 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza (a place that humanitarian agencies have labelled “the largest prison on earth”) had resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths—655,000 in Iraq alone before 2006, according to conservative estimates of the Lancet Report—and millions of refugees. Afghan and Iraqi civilians were constant casualties— at weddings and in schoolyards, hospital wards, and houses of worship. Afghan and Iraqi inmates have been tortured at Bagram Airbase, Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo Bay. Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi, a young Iraqi girl, was gang-raped by US marines, then murdered along with her parents and siblings, their bodies burnt. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 39
Categorization
- SHARE: The Lancet Report’s 655,000 figure for Iraq deaths before 2006 is a striking, citable number worth sharing with anyone working on war and media framing.
- XREF: connects to: US caused more Afghan civilian casualties than the Taliban in 2019; The wars on terror killed hundreds of thousands and displaced tens of millions — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 480; War on Terror killed 400,000 directly and 800,000 indirectly
Related
- US caused more Afghan civilian casualties than the Taliban in 2019 (similarity 0.93)
- War on Terror killed 400,000 directly and 800,000 indirectly (similarity 0.89)
- The wars on terror killed hundreds of thousands and displaced tens of millions (similarity 0.80)