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Professor: U.S. bombs kill 62 Afghan civilians
a day
U.S. bombs have killed more than 3,500 Afghan civilians, according
to a study, released Dec. 10, by Marc W. Herold, professor of economics,
international relations and womens studies at the University of New
Hampshire. The economics professor said he wants to make the figures
known. This is a war with 62 Afghan civilians dying a day. This figure should
become part of the public discussion.
Herold said he began gathering data on civilian casualties Oct. 7,
culling information from news agencies, major newspapers and first-hand
accounts. I decided to do the study because I suspected that the modern
weaponry was not what it was advertised to be, he said.
For each day since Oct. 7, the start of the U.S. air war, the
study lists the number of casualties, location, type of weapon used and source
of information. Herolds news release provided an example from his daily
calculations: On Oct. 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)
The Guardian of London, The Independent, International Herald
Tribune, The Observer and the BBC News.
Herolds analysis can be found at
http://www.cursor.org/stories/civilian_deaths.htm
-- Claire Schaeffer-Duffy
National Catholic Reporter, December 21,
2001
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