Haiti: Why an accurate count of civilian deaths matters
Since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, there have been at least 60,000 civilian deaths that wouldn't otherwise have occurred. Or maybe that number is closer to 650,000. Between 1998 and 2004, 5.4 million people died in a war and its aftermath in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Or was it one-fifth that number? In Haiti, fewer than 46,000 people were killed in the January 2010 earthquake. Or perhaps the death toll was more than 300,000.
The science of measuring mortality and morbidity is controversial. There are bitter disputes among groups of researchers who study death tolls in the world's hot spots.… Seguir leyendo »