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G_j

G_j's Journal
G_j's Journal
March 5, 2022

Humanity's failure

How does modern humanity find it’s self able to helplessly watch human misery and war crimes daily on TV?

In perspective, leading up to the Iraq war, “Anti-war groups worldwide organised public protests. According to the French academic Dominique Reynié, between 3 January and 12 April 2003, 36 million people across the globe took part in almost 3,000 anti‑war protests, the demonstrations on 15 February 2003 being the largest and most prolific.”

But to no avail as the world then got to watch “shock and awe” live.

“Population-based studies produce estimates of the number of Iraq War casualties ranging from 151,000 violent deaths as of June 2006 (per the Iraq Family Health Survey) to 1,033,000 excess deaths (per the 2007 Opinion Research Business (ORB) survey). Other survey-based studies covering different time-spans find 461,000 total deaths (over 60% of them violent) as of June 2011 (per PLOS Medicine 2013), and 655,000 total deaths (over 90% of them violent) as of June 2006 (per the 2006 Lancet study). Body counts counted at least 110,600 violent deaths as of April 2009 (Associated Press). The Iraq Body Count project documents 185,000–208,000 violent civilian deaths through February 2020 in their table. All estimates of Iraq War casualties are disputed.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_anti-war_protests#Background

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

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