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Iraq body count

Iraq: more deaths than during the Rwandan genocide?

Crikey / Wednesday, 18 July 2007

Some time back, the Lancet published a study that put the number of violent deaths attributable to the invasion and occupation of Iraq at 601,000. Now the American group Just Foreign Policy has produced an updated figure, suggesting that to date the war and occupation have killed nearly a million Iraqis.