Übersetzung meines Telepolis-Artikels “Zwanzig Jahre nach „Nine Eleven“ – die humanitären Kosten der nachfolgenden US- und Nato-Kriege“
Humanitarian cost of post-9/11/01 U.S. and NATO wars tops 4 million dead
By Joachim Guilliard
Workers World, October 22, 2021
The author is an anti-imperialist German analyst of the U.S./NATO wars in Central and West Asia. Translation: by John Catalinotto.
According to the latest report from the Costs of War Project at Brown University in Rhode Island, the wars the U.S. and its allies unleashed after September 11, 2001, killed over 900,000 people. This is a minimum. Taking into account the large gaps in coverage and the far higher number of indirect casualties, the actual figure may exceed four million. In addition, the wars wounded and traumatized far more people in the affected countries, and displaced over 38 million people.
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