October 29, 2004
100,000 civilians have died from Iraq War and aftermath: Lancet
Agence France Presse

Around 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died as a result of the March 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, according to a study to be published on Friday by the British medical weekly The Lancet.

PARIS (AFP) - Around 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died as a result of the March 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq (news - web sites), according to a study to be published on Friday by the British medical weekly The Lancet.

The research was conducted by a US-Iraqi team led by experts from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.

Their figure is based on interviews in 988 households from 33 randomly-selected neighbourhoods in Iraq. Families were asked to give the number of deaths since January 2002, the date and cause and, if a violent death was involved, the circumstances.

The mortality rates for the 14.6 months before the invasion were then compared with those for the 17.8 months after it, and a nationwide estimate was then extrapolated.

"Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100,000 excess deaths or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq," the authors said.

"Violence accounted for most of the excess deaths and air strikes from coalition forces accounted for most violent deaths."

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