Sunday 24 October 2010

Every logged Iraq war death logged on a map

The quote commonly attributed to Stalin goes, "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic," and it's sadly true. The humanity of a tragedy is diminished as it becomes increasingly difficult to imagine and empathise with a massive death count. 

So this map by the Guardian is exceptional. Every dot represents a death - or multiple deaths, where bombs have gone off. Click on a dot and you'll get the details. Not every death can be blamed on US/UK troops, but the vast majority would not have ever occurred had we never invaded. It's casualties like you'd imagine of any war, but graphed as they have been here, every death is humanised, and not some vague statistic. Just some food for thought.

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