The Number of Death Reached 655,000

A research has revealed that 655,000 Iraqis have died since 2003, the year the war started. From this total 31% is claimed to be caused by the occupation forces, while violence or natural death due to sickness caused the remaining percentage. The age range of those who died is between 15-44. The total death is tallied to be 2.5% of the general population. The main cause death not related to the war or disease was bullet and to an extent car bombs and suicide bombing. The research had compared the death rate to other wars such as Vietnam War, that caused 3 million civilians death; the Congo conflict had claimed 3.8 lives; in East Timor, an estimated 200,000 out of a population of 800,000 had died, and recent estimates revealed that 200,000 have died in Darfur in the past 31 months. The conclusion is since this figure is above what used to take place in Iraq before the invasion, the occupation has exasperated the situation, and it seems that the number is not relenting even now in 2006.