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U vertelt flagrante onwaarheden. De cijfers voor en na de oorlog werden vergeleken. Voor de oorlog waren de overlijdens vooral te wijten aan besmet water, ondervoeding etc. Maar na de oorlog zijn de "excess deaths" vooral te wijten aan de baldadigheden van de occupation forces. Nochtans waren de persberichten van Reuters, AP, AFP en de survey zelf zeer duidelijk. U kan toch lezen, neem ik aan? Het kan geen toeval zijn dat U uit drie gelijkaardige berichten een leugen distilleert?

Wat U ons in dit nieuwsitem aldus duidelijk aantoont is dat er nog steeds een desinformatiecampagne over Irak aan de gang is, campagne die al duurt vanaf het begin van het embargo in augustus 1990.

Is het mogelijk aub om de feiten, die zeer bezwarend zijn voor de "coalition of the willing" correct te vermelden? Of heeft Uw leiding dit niet zo graag? Het is onwaarschijnlijk dat een dergelijk explosief bericht niet één keer in het radio-nieuws werd vermeld vandaag.

Dit maakt mij vreselijk kwaad. Een ziekmakende vertoning.

Dirk Adriaensens
http://www.irak.be

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Uit de persberichten:
LONDON (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed in violence since the U.S.-led invasion last year, American public health experts have calculated in a report that estimates there were 100,000 "excess deaths" in 18 months.

The rise in the death rate was mainly due to violence and much of it was caused by U.S. air strikes on towns and cities.


"Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100,000 excess deaths, or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq (news - web sites)," said Les Roberts of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in a report published online by The Lancet medical journal.


"The use of air power in areas with lots of civilians appears to be killing a lot of women and children," Roberts told Reuters.


The report came just days before the U.S. presidential election in which the Iraq war has been a major issue.


Mortality was already high in Iraq before the war because of United Nations (news - web sites) sanctions blocking food and medical imports but the researchers described what they found as shocking.

"Excluding information from Falluja, a Lancet report of october 29 estimates that 100,000 more Iraqis died than would have been expected had the invasion not occurred. Eighty-four percent of the deaths were reported to be caused by the actions of Coalition forces and 95 percent of those deaths were due to air strikes and artillery."(Reuters, october 28.2004)
They found that the risk of death from violence in the period after the invasion was 58 times higher than before the war.

Before the war the major causes of death were heart attacks, chronic disorders and accidents. That changed after the war.





Two-thirds of violent deaths in the study were reported in Falluja, the insurgent held city 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad which had been repeatedly hit by U.S. air strikes.

"Our results need further verification and should lead to changes to reduce non-combatant deaths from air strikes," Roberts added in the study.

Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, said the research which was submitted to the journal earlier this month had been peer-reviewed, edited and fast-tracked for publication because of its importance in the evolving security situation in Iraq.

"But these findings also raise questions for those far removed from Iraq -- in the governments of the countries responsible for launching a pre-emptive war," Horton said in an editorial. (Reuters)


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The most common causes of death before the invasion of Iraq were heart attacks, strokes and other chronic diseases. However, after the invasion, violence was recorded as the primary cause of death and was mainly attributed to coalition forces — with about 95 percent of those deaths caused by bombs or fire from helicopter gunships.
Violent deaths — defined as those brought about by the intentional act of others — were reported in 15 of the 33 clusters. The chances of a violent death were 58 times higher after the invasion than before it, the researchers said.

"Most individuals reportedly killed by coalition forces were women and children," they said. (AP)



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

The research, based on interviews among Iraqi households and an extrapolation of the data, was led by experts from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, in the US state of Maryland.


"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."

De volledige Survey van The Lancet kan U hier vinden: http://image.thelancet.com/extras/04art10342web.pdf

Op de VTR kunnen ze wel beschaafd Vlaams maar weten ze nauwelijks nog dat wereld verder rijkt dan de Vlaamsche ardennen, de Vlaamsche kust, de Vlaamsche kempen,...

Ze spreken bij de VRT dan ook alleen nog Vlaamsh Dirk. In plaats van U kwaad te maken zou je betere kiezen voor pragmatische aanpak.

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"The rise in the death rate was mainly due to violence and much of it was caused by U.S. air strikes on towns and cities."
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"De stijging van het sterftecijfer was hoofdzakelijk toe te schrijven aan geweld en veel van het werd veroorzaakt door de luchtstakingen van de V.S. op steden en steden."

Het is niet perfect maar dat moeten ze bij de VRT toch begrijpen,....