How many civilians has NATO killed in total? Looking for a list of their interventions and death counts.
2026-04-20 14:36 UTC
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@communism@lemmy.ml 2026-04-20 15:05
This is not what you asked, but the only resource that immediate comes to mind is countercurrents’ list of every invasion the US has carried out compiled in 2013: www.countercurrents.org/polya050713.htm I’m not sure if anyone’s compiled what you’re asking for. Of course the death toll of the US directly both contains events that pre-date NATO, and NATO contains countries other than the US.
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@Brunning_at_BD20@lemmy.dorfrollenspiel.de 2026-04-20 15:16
That’s nearly impossible to answer: Are only NATO operations included? How would combined operations be counted (Afghanistan was under a wider UN umbrella)? What’s even the civilian definition?
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@probable_possum@leminal.space 2026-04-20 16:07
Do you mean NATO (defense operations if one member is attacked)? Wars started by a NATO member? Unofficial proxy war support?
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@Bazell@lemmy.zip 2026-04-20 15:48
That is a way too broad range of variables to calculate properly. Include specifications.
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@ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2026-04-20 18:45
Isn’t that just the list of wars involving the United States
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@GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml 2026-04-20 20:12
About 350 thousand according to this source whe you can find a list and a very conservative death count: …com.cn/…/WS64ab6988a310bf8a75d6e3a2.html The most deadly NATO intervention is the Iraq war, in October 2006 the Lancet estimated the following: Three misattributed clusters were excluded from the final analysis; data from 1849 households that contained 12 801 individuals in 47 clusters was gathered. 1474 births and 629 deaths were reported during the observation period. Pre-invasion mortality rates were 5·5 per 1000 people per year (95% CI 4·3–7·1), compared with 13·3 per 1000 people per year (10·9–16·1) in the 40 months post-invasion. We estimate that as of July, 2006, there have been 654 965 (392 979–942 636) excess Iraqi deaths as a consequence of the war, which corresponds to 2·5% of the population in the study area. Of post-invasion deaths, 601 027 (426 369–793 663) were due to violence, the most common cause being gunfire web.archive.org/web/…/lancet111006.pdf brusselstribunal.org/pdf/lancet111006.pdf
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@davel@lemmy.ml 2026-04-20 19:47
Reporter: [REDACTED] Reason: Breaks rule 1 Reporter, the first rule of Lemmy is you don’t make false reports against site admins’ posts.
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@antisoumerde@quokk.au 2026-04-21 09:24
If we use the victim of Communism counting methodology they killed at least 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 people