Tuesday 2 June 2015

War in Afghanistan Has Killed 100,000 Since 2001: Report

War in Afghanistan Has Killed 100,000 Since 2001: Report | Jun 02,2015
The study, called Costs of War and produced by Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies, looks at war-related deaths, injuries and displacement in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 2001 to last year, when international combat troops left Afghanistan.
Civilian and military deaths in both countries total almost 149,000 people killed, with 162,000 seriously wounded, its author, Neta Crawford, found.
Noting a rise in annual figures for killed and wounded in recent years, she said the figures show that that the war in Afghanistan is not ending. "It is getting worse," she said. MORE

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