Iraqis are being killed and dying at 2.5 times the rate since the US invasion than before. More than 100,000 Iraqi have been killed or died as a direct or indirect result of the US invasion, just a year and a half ago, according to a new analysis by Johns Hopkins published in the Lancet, and described in this IHT article:

Iraqis were 2.5 times more likely to die in the 17 months following the invasion than in the 14 months before it. Before the invasion, the most common causes of death in Iraq were heart attacks, strokes and chronic diseases. Afterward, violent death was far ahead of all other causes . . .

The risk of violent death was 58 times higher than before the war, the researchers found. . .

The estimate of 100,000 excess deaths... translates into an average of 166 excess deaths a day since the invasion.

Read it and weep.

Spencer Ackerman has an interview with the lead author of the study.

Posted by Laura at October 29, 2004 04:25 PM