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US Invasion And Occupation
Killed One Million In Iraq
More than one million Iraqis dead
since 2003 invasion: study
By AFP
31/01/08 - -- LONDON (AFP) — More than one million Iraqis have
died because of the war in Iraq since the US-led invasion of the
country in 2003, according to a study published Wednesday.
A fifth of Iraqi households lost at least one family member
between March 2003 and August 2007 due to the conflict, said
data compiled by London-based Opinion Research Business (ORB)
and its research partner in Iraq, the Independent Institute for
Administration and Civil Society Studies (IIACSS).
The study based its findings on survey work involving the
face-to-face questioning of 2,414 Iraqi adults aged 18 or above,
and the last complete census in Iraq in 1997, which indicated a
total of 4.05 million households.
Respondents were asked how many members of their household, if
any, had died as a result of the violence in the country since
2003, and not because of natural causes.
"We now estimate that the death toll between March 2003 and
August 2007 is likely to have been in the order of 1,033,000,"
ORB said in a statement.
The margin of error for the survey was 1.7 percent, making the
estimated range between 946,000 and 1.12 million fatalities.
The highest rate of deaths throughout the country occurred in
Baghdad, where more than 40 percent of households had lost a
family member.
According to a July 2007 estimate by the United States, Iraq's
population is around 27 million.
The country has been wracked by conflict since the March 2003
invasion which deposed dictator Saddam Hussein, with United
Nations estimates putting the number of displaced people from
the conflict at more than four million, nearly half of which
have fled to neighbouring countries.
A small number of those refugees have begun returning to Iraq --
around 20,000 arrived from Syria in December -- the Iraqi Red
Crescent said earlier this month, suggesting an improved
security situation.
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