What do you think, how many people were killed in the name of #counterterrorism?
Deaths caused by governments in the name of counterterrorism vastly exceed deaths caused by militant groups who use terror tactics.
This report reviews the latest research to examine the causal pathways that have led to an estimated 3.6-3.8 million indirect deaths in post-9/11 war zones, including #Afghanistan, #Pakistan, #Iraq, #Syria, and #Yemen. The total death toll in these war zones could be at least 4.5-4.7 million and counting, though the precise mortality figure remains unknown. Some people were killed in the fighting, but far more, especially children, have been killed by the reverberating effects of war, such as the spread of disease.
The #report examines the devastating toll of war on human health, whoever the combatant, whatever the compounding factor, in the most violent conflicts in which the U.S. government has been engaged in the name of counterterrorism since September 11, 2001.
#costofwar #waronterror #empire
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2023/IndirectDeaths