Iraqi Civilian War Casualties - New Survey

A new site is up with a survey of Iraqi civilian casualties for the first 50 days of the war.

The director of the survey, Raed Jarrar, is the author of the Raid in the Middle blog, and part of the A Family in Baghdad blog.

"In respect to their sacred memory, I would appreciate it if you could spend some minutes reading the database file when I publish them, read their names, and their personal details, and think about them as human beings, friends, and relatives -- not mere figures and numbers." Raed Jarrar

•  asdf

  I had thought about posting this up myself - thanks for taking the time. I had been following the success of the CIVIC organization when it was in it's survey stage, I'm glad to see Raed and the others were able to get their work finalized - heck I even attempted to raise funds (locally w/ little success I might add) to help financing.
  It'd be interesting to see what survey numbers would look like for the entire first year - I'm almost appauled to think of how many cilivians have been lost.

  by AntiHero on Fri Jun 11, 2004 at 12:36:15 PM PDT

  •  appauling indeed

    .. and I'm confounded that it takes a volunteer effort just to acknowledge the "collateral damage".  

    But we wouldn't want it to seem like a "body count" - the measure of success - now would we.  That excuse is pathetic.
     

    by dash on Fri Jun 11, 2004 at 01:17:14 PM PDT