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
I read some highlights on this blog:
http://elizabethmcclung.blogspot.com/2007/04/four…
which gives some idea of the tragic absurdities uncovered.
Well done Andrew for bringing this to our attention.
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.
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.
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…
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.