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News: Human Rights : International |
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The Actual Iraqi Civilian Fatality Study |
Submitted by: Sneeky / 30 Oct 2004
Publisher: The Lancet Medical Journal
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This is the actual study as published in the Lancet Medical Journal.
Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: cluster sample survey
Les Roberts, Riyadh Lafta, Richard Garfield, Jamal Khudhairi, Gilbert Burnham
Summary
Background In March, 2003, military forces, mainly from the USA and the UK, invaded Iraq. We did a survey to compare mortality during the period of 14-6 months before the invasion with the 17-8 months after it.
Methods A cluster sample survey was undertaken throughout Iraq during September, 2004. 33 clusters of 30 households each were interviewed about household composition, births, and deaths since January, 2002. In those households reporting deaths, the date, cause, and circumstances of violent deaths were recorded. We assessed the relative risk of death associated with the 2003 invasion and occupation by comparing mortality in the 17-8 months after the invasion with the 14-6-month period preceding it.
Findings The risk of death was estimated to be 2·5-fold (95% CI 1*6-4*2) higher after the invasion when compared with the preinvasion period. Two-thirds of all violent deaths were reported in one cluster in the city of Falluja. If we exclude the Falluja data, the risk of death is 1*5-fold (1*1-2*3) higher after the invasion. We estimate that 98000 more deaths than expected (8000-194000) happened after the invasion outside of Falluja and far more if the outlier Falluja cluster is included. The major causes of death before the invasion were myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular accidents, and other chronic disorders whereas after the invasion violence was the primary cause of death. Violent deaths were widespread, reported in 15 of 33 clusters, and were mainly attributed to coalition forces. Most individuals reportedly killed by coalition forces were women and children. The risk of death from violence in the period after the invasion was 58 times higher (95% CI 8*1-419) than in the period before the war.
Interpretation Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100000 excess deaths, or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Violence accounted for most of the excess deaths and air strikes from coalition forces accounted for most violent deaths. We have shown that collection of public-health information is possible even during periods of extreme violence. Our results need further verification and should lead to changes to reduce non-combatant deaths from air strikes. |
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News: International : Organizing |
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Peace activists on trial for war protest |
Submitted by: Boston IMC / 30 Oct 2004
Publisher: Boston.com
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BRATTLEBORO, Vt. -- Six peace activists say they were following a moral code higher than the law when they refused to leave a Vermont National Guard office two days before the start of the war in Iraq.
The six claim they were exercising their right to free speech. But prosecutors say it was a case of trespassing.
The protesters were intimidating to the lone guard member at the Brattleboro recruitment center on March 17, 2003, Windham County Deputy State's Attorney Scott Willison said Thursday.
"Do not focus on the war," he told the jury, "but the elements of the crime."
A lawyer representing the six local peace activists, part of a group called the Peace Guard, argued that the activists were practicing their First Amendment rights to protest against an imminent war they found morally vacant. |
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News: Human Rights : Social Welfare : Technology |
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Probe into fan death to look at police mistakes, training, product failure |
Submitted by: Boston IMC / 30 Oct 2004
Publisher: Boston.com
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BOSTON -- Boston Police Commissioner Kathleen O'Toole promised a wide-ranging and exhaustive investigation into the death of a college student shot by police with a pepper-spray pellet during an unruly Red Sox celebration.
O'Toole said two separate investigations into the Oct. 21 death of 21-year-old Victoria Snelgrove will examine whether police had adequate training in the use of the compressed-air guns that fired the pellets, whether the guns worked properly and whether police made bad decisions as they tried to bring a rowdy crowd under control.
Snelgrove died hours after a pellet fired by police penetrated her eye socket. Police used the pepper guns after some fans in a crowd estimated at 80,000 began hurling bottles, setting fires and rocking cars after the Red Sox defeated their archrivals, the New York Yankees, to win the American League pennant.
"We need to consider the possibility of human failure, product failure," O'Toole said in an interview with Associated Press reporters and editors Friday. "We have to consider every possibility, and it may be a combination of many factors." |
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News: Human Rights : Race |
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Newton reacts to racial vandalism |
Submitted by: Boston IMC / 29 Oct 2004
Publisher: Newton Tab
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Last Wednesday, Marianne Ferguson, the chair of Newton's Human Rights Commission, asked a crowd of more than 300 citizens crowded into the War Memorial at City Hall to play a simple game.
She would ask a question and audience members would stand up if their answer was yes.
Question one: "Have you ever been the target of prejudice, discrimination or bigotry?" she asked.
Nearly two-thirds of the audience members stood up.
It was two weeks after Newton Police found racist graffiti spray-painted on a student-designed mural at Bowen Elementary School, and the crowd had gathered to hear local city and civil rights leaders speak out against the vandalism.
And now, more than three weeks later, police are still searching for a teenage suspect and believe the graffiti was directed toward the school principal, Patricia Kelly, who is a black woman. Along with the racist statements, which read, "KKK," "white power," and "kill n------," Kelly's likeness in the mural was painted over in white with two Xs drawn through her eyes.
Also written was a derogatory word for a lesbian and pro-drug statements. |
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News: Globalization : Human Rights : International |
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Bhopal gas victims appeal to Indian Supreme Court to quadruple compensation |
Submitted by: Boston IMC / 29 Oct 2004
Publisher: AP
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BHOPAL, India -- Groups representing survivors of a 1984 industrial gas leak in central India that killed 15,000 people have appealed to the Supreme Court to quadruple compensation payments, saying $330 million released this week was not enough.
The money has to be shared among 572,000 people who the Supreme Court ruled this week were affected by the leak.
Danbury, Conn.-based Union Carbide, which owned the Bhopal plant where the leak occurred, paid $470 million in compensation under a settlement with India's government in 1989. But only part of that amount was given to the victims.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ordered the rest of the money to be disbursed. It also accepted an estimate by victims groups that the number of people affected by the disaster had increased from the 105,000 listed in 1989 to 572,000 with new births and previously unreported cases. |
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News: Environment : Social Welfare : Technology |
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Somerville Bids for Green Line Extension |
Submitted by: Boston IMC / 29 Oct 2004
Publisher: Boston.com
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There are plenty of train tracks in Somerville, 11 miles of them, just counting commuter rail and Amtrak.
The problem, say residents of this densely settled, working-class city, is that none of the trains that run on those tracks, 200 every day, stop in Somerville, instead rushing by on their way to Boston.
About 500 residents gathered Wednesday night at Somerville High School, hoping to persuade state officials to change all that by building the $375 million extension of the Green Line from Lechmere to West Medford, including a possible spur to Union Square.
The extension, an idea that has been around since 1970, would provide trolley service to people in a city of 77,400 who now must use the bus and sit in traffic. The city's only subway stop is the Red Line's Davis Square, near the western border with Cambridge. |
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News: Politics |
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States 'can postpone' U.S. elections |
Submitted by: Ritt Goldstein / 28 Oct 2004
Publisher: UPI/Washington Times
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Both President Bush and some State's - including Florida, New York and California - can potentially postpone the election in "emergency circumstances".
Over the last 4 months, three Congressional Research Service reports addressed election postponement, their findings unsettling - Congress appears duly "concerned". |
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