New report puts the loss of life in America’s post-9/11 wars at 4.5 million
The report from Stephanie Savell, a cultural anthropologist at Brown University, focuses on ‘indirect deaths’ – caused not by outright violence but by consequent, ensuing economic collapse, loss of livelihoods, food insecurity, destruction of public health services, environmental contamination and continuing trauma, including mental health problems, domestic and sexual abuse and displacement.
Calculated this way, the total number of deaths that occurred as a result of post-9/11 warfare in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya and Somalia rises dramatically from an upper estimate of 937,000 to at least 4.5 million …
New report puts the loss of life in America’s post-9/11 wars at 4.5 million
ReplyDeleteThe report from Stephanie Savell, a cultural anthropologist at Brown University, focuses on ‘indirect deaths’ – caused not by outright violence but by consequent, ensuing economic collapse, loss of livelihoods, food insecurity, destruction of public health services, environmental contamination and continuing trauma, including mental health problems, domestic and sexual abuse and displacement.
Calculated this way, the total number of deaths that occurred as a result of post-9/11 warfare in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya and Somalia rises dramatically from an upper estimate of 937,000 to at least 4.5 million …
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2023/IndirectDeaths
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/21/the-uncounted-how-millions-died-unseen-in-americas-post-9-11-wars