- Joined
- Jun 16, 2018
- Messages
- 2,647
- Reaction score
- 286
- Location
- East
- Gender
- Undisclosed
- Political Leaning
- Independent
So much for so called 'surgical air strikes' and other nonsense designed to help people imagine that the US military is so clever its weapons know how to distinguish civilians from enemies.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-...ian-deaths-from-airstrikes-almost-double-year
More than 15,000 civilians were killed by explosive weapons in 2017, a jump of 42% in a year, according to a global survey seen by the Guardian.
The rise – driven by airstrikes, which killed almost double the number of civilians in 2017 compared with the previous year – coincided with US-led military operations to reclaim the Islamic State strongholds of Mosul, in Iraq, and Raqqa, in Syria.
The global survey, compiled by Action on Armed Violence, an organisation that highlights civilian harm from explosive weapons, suggests the civilian death toll from air-launched explosives rose by 82%, from 4,902 in 2016, to 8,932 in 2017.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-...ian-deaths-from-airstrikes-almost-double-year
More than 15,000 civilians were killed by explosive weapons in 2017, a jump of 42% in a year, according to a global survey seen by the Guardian.
The rise – driven by airstrikes, which killed almost double the number of civilians in 2017 compared with the previous year – coincided with US-led military operations to reclaim the Islamic State strongholds of Mosul, in Iraq, and Raqqa, in Syria.
The global survey, compiled by Action on Armed Violence, an organisation that highlights civilian harm from explosive weapons, suggests the civilian death toll from air-launched explosives rose by 82%, from 4,902 in 2016, to 8,932 in 2017.