Western sanctions killed thousands of Iraqi children who remain uncounted.

Evidence

It is believed that close to a million Iraqis have died since the occupation, for instance, and in the decade before, the thousands of children who died as a direct result of Western sanctions against Iraq have yet to be counted as casualties. Few Westerners think that we are implicated in the violence of our world. Instead, we are now much more likely to believe in what I have identified as a contemporary form of race thinking, namely, the story that we are under siege by Muslims and that our governments must save us from this threat. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 396

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing the sourcing on the ‘close to a million Iraqi deaths’ figure and the sanctions-children number, to verify and to characterize the epistemic asymmetry.
• XREF: connects to: US sanctions on 1990s Iraq killed over a million Iraqis — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 197