PeaceAware Factsheet: War is Increasingly About Civilian Dead. In WWI, the total number of Civilian Casualties was 12,755, or 10.74% of the total casualties (106,000 GIs died; 8 million civilians died). In WWII the civilian casualties were approximately 410,000, or 50.62% of the total (400,000 GIs died; add to the civilian total the 8 million Holocaust; and add 17 to 60 million civilian causality estimates worldwide). In the Vietnam War, civilian casualty estimate is 340,000, or 85.74% of total casualties (56,000 GIs died; 200,000 South Vietnamese soldiers died; 1,000,000 North Vietnamese soldiers died). In the narrow window of the Gulf War (1990-1991) 5,000 civilian casualties, or 92.89% dead and 383 GIs dead from accident or friendly fire during 1991-1992; But Since 1992 more than 1.2 million civilians, or 99.15% (estimates range as high as 1.7 million dead) and 10,324 U.S. GIs dead since the war. Of the 1.2 million civilian casualties, 500,000 are children under five.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:16:01 +0000
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