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November 07, 2004
Death and Populations
Juan Cole has written about a study published in The Lancet. It says that US and coalition forces have killed 100,000 civilians in Iraq. Mostly by bombs, mostly women and children.
I’ve seen some attempts to put this into perspective, “that would be the equivalent, in American population terms, of 1.1 million people here.”
That’s not right.
So here is my attempt to put this into perspective. Each pixel represents 3000 people. The bright red pixels each represent 3000 deaths. For Iraq, the recent war is represented (33 pixels=100,000 deaths). For the US, September 11, 2001 is represented (1 pixel=3000 deaths).
In addition to death as a proportion of population, I made an assumption that 100 friends, family, colleagues of each person would be affected. They are represented by dark red.
Posted by dme at November 7, 2004 06:55 PM
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