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.
Figure 2 - Percentage of Civilians as Casualty of War - Up
from 10.74% to 99.15%
The increase in Civilian Casualties from War and
Sanctions is why the Gulf Wars violate the Geneva
Convention. Such high rates of
casualty are considered War Crimes.
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