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ACLU Publishes Online Database of Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq

by andrew on April 16, 2007 10:34 am in War in Iraq

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has, in the last few days, made public hundreds of files on civilians killed or injured by Coalition Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. The ACLU received the records in response to a Freedom of Information Act request it filed in June 2006.

They have created an online database that can be searched to find details of particular incidents and a complete log of the claims can also be browsed.

via LFCM

6 Comments

  1. kazbel

    16 Apr, 2007 - 11:50 am

    I read some highlights on this blog:
    http://elizabethmcclung.blogspot.com/2007/04/four…

    which gives some idea of the tragic absurdities uncovered.

  2. Strategist

    17 Apr, 2007 - 12:28 am

    Well done Andrew for bringing this to our attention.

  3. johnf

    17 Apr, 2007 - 7:42 am

    Larry Johnson has pointed out yesterday that what America is going through at the moment in relation to Virginia Tech, Iraq goes through every day, week in, week out, year in, year out – only on an even bigger scale.

  4. ChoamNomsky

    17 Apr, 2007 - 6:49 pm

    An excellent information resource. For a number of days I have been looking for something like this since I saw this BBC article.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6558769.stm

    It talks about Afghan civilians being the main victims but only talks about insurgents doing the killing.

  5. Friend

    18 Apr, 2007 - 9:17 pm

    For earlier quantitative estimates and case studies of civilian deaths in Iraq there is a report from IBC from 2005.

    See http://craigmurrayfriends.blogspot.com/2005/07/us…

  6. Friend

    18 Apr, 2007 - 9:20 pm

    That url was just tooo long.

    here it is tinyed:
    http://tinyurl.com/yqzh59

    The IBC report form then records that US/UK forces were the largest single cause of cvilian deaths.

 

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