What about the ‘surge’ in civilian casualties?

The First Post.

In the media coverage of the American 'surge' - committing 20,000 extra troops to the war in Iraq - there has been barely a word about the likely consequences of this intensified combat for the Iraqi civilian population. A report in the Lancet medical journal last year estimated that, as of July 2006, 655,000 Iraqis had died as a result of the US-UK invasion; one in seven families had lost a household member. In the Independent earlier this month, Les Roberts, co-author of that report, suggested that Britain and America may already have triggered "an episode more deadly than the Rwandan genocide" in Iraq. The consequences of the latest military 'surge' for traumatised civilians, as the world's superpower makes a last-ditch attempt to save its invasion strategy, will only worsen the situation. The war has also triggered a refugee crisis which is similarly under-reported...

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