Yemeni War Deaths Underestimated by Five to One
NOVANEWS
ACLED estimates the true number of people killed in Yemen is probably between 70,000 and 80,000.
By: Nicolas J. S. Davies
Common Dreams
In April, I made new estimates of the death toll in America’s post-2001 wars in a three-part Consortium News report. I estimated that these wars have now killed several million people. I explained that widely reported but much lower estimates of the numbers of combatants and civilians killed were likely to be only one fifth to one twentieth of the true numbers of people killed in U.S. war zones. Now one of the NGOs responsible for understating war deaths in Yemen has acknowledged that it was underestimating them by at least five to one, as I suggested in my report.
One of the sources I examined for my report was a U.K.-based NGO na...