Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation

#1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation

in Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009

Sources:


After Downing Street, July 6, 2007


Title: “Is the United States Killing 10,000 Iraqis Every Month? Or Is It More?”


Author: Michael Schwartz

AlterNet, September 17, 2007


Title: “Iraq death toll rivals Rwanda genocide, Cambodian killing fields”


Author: Joshua Holland

Reuters (via AlterNet), January 7, 2008


Title: “Iraq conflict has killed a million, says survey”


Author: Luke Baker

Inter Press Service, March 3, 2008


Title: “Iraq: Not our country to Return to”


Authors: Maki al-Nazzal and Dahr Jamail

Student Researchers: Danielle Stanton, Tim LeDonne, and Kat Pat Crespán


Faculty Evaluator: Heidi LaMoreaux, PhD

Over one million Iraqis have met violent deaths as a result of the 2003
invasion, according to a study conducted by the prestigious British
polling group, Opinion Research Business (ORB). These numbers suggest
that the invasion and occupation of Iraq rivals the mass killings of
the last century—the human toll exceeds the 800,000 to 900,000
believed killed in the Rwandan genocide in 1994, and is approaching the
number (1.7 million) who died in Cambodia’s infamous
“Killing Fields” during the Khmer Rouge era of the 1970s.

ORB’s research covered fifteen of Iraq’s eighteen
provinces. Those not covered include two of Iraq’s more volatile
regions—Kerbala and Anbar—and the northern province of
Arbil, where local authorities refused them a permit to work. In
face-to-face interviews with 2,414 adults, the poll found that more
than one in five respondents had had at least one death in their
household as a result of the conflict, as opposed to natural cause.