[smygo] 3500+ Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan
Clore Daniel C
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DECEMBER 10, 2001
10:00 AM
CONTACT: Marc Herold
Marc Herold (603) 862-3375
Andrea Buffa (510) 839-8911
3,500 Civilians Killed in Afghanistan by U.S. Bombs
University of New Hampshire Economics Professor Releases
Study of Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan Monday Morning
on Democracy Now! Radio/TV Show
DURHAM, NEW HAMPSHIRE - December 10 - More than 3,500
civilians have been killed in Afghanistan by U.S. bombs,
according to a study to be released December 10 by Marc W.
Herold, Professor of Economics, International Relations, and
Women's Studies at the University of New Hampshire.
Professor Herold will announce his findings on Monday,
December 10 in a discussion with award-winning journalist,
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! in Exile's War and Peace
Report (http://www.democracynow.org ).
Professor Herold has been gathering data on civilian
casualties since October 7 by culling information from news
agencies, major newspapers, and first-hand accounts. "I
decided to do the study because I suspected that the modern
weaponrywas not what it was advertised to be. I was
concerned that there would be significant civilian
casualties caused by the bombing, and I was able to find
some mention of casualties in the foreign press but almost
nothing in the U.S. press," said Herold.
Herold's data will be available at
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mwherold/.
For each day since October 7, when the U.S. bombing of
Afghanistan began, he lists the number of casualties,
location, type of weapon used, and source(s) of information.
Following are several examples from his daily calculations:
* On October 11, two U.S. jets bombed the mountain village
of Karam, comprised of 60 mud houses, during dinner and
evening prayer time, killing 100-160 people. Sources: DAWN,
(English language Pakistani daily newspaper), the Guardian
of London, the Independent, International Herald Tribune,
the Scotsman, the Observer, and the BBC News.
* On October 13, in the early morning, an F-18 dropped 2,000
lb. JDAM bombs on the Qila Meer Abas neighborhood, 2 kms.
South of the Kabul airport, killing four people. Sources:
Afghan Islamic Press, Los Angeles Times, Frontier Post,
Pakistan Observer, the Guardian of London, and the BBC News.
* On October 31, in a pre-dawn raid, an F-18 dropped a 2,000
lb. JDAM bomb on a Red Crescent clinic, killing 15 - 25
people. Sources: DAWN, the Times of London, the Independent,
the Guardian, Reuters, Associated Press, and Agence France
Presse.
Professor Herold has sought whenever possible to
cross-corroborate accounts of civilian casualties. He relied
upon British, Canadian, and Australian newspapers; Indian
newspapers, especially The Times of India; three Pakistani
daily newspapers; the Singapore News; Afghan Islamic Press;
Agence France Press; Pakistan News Service; Reuters; BBC
News Online; Al Jazeera; and a variety of other reputable
sources, including the United Nations and other relief
agencies.
The Pentagon has repeatedly denied reports of civilian
casualties in Afghanistan, and most U.S. media outlets have
qualified their reports of casualties with the statement
"could not be independently confirmed." But Professor Herold
has been able to confirm the number of casualties and has
found that the number is climbing toward 4,000. "People have
to know that there is a human cost to war, and that this is
a war with thousands of casualties," said Herold. "These
were poor people to begin with, and, on top of that, they
had absolutely nothing to do with the events of September
11."
--
Dan Clore
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