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Death Toll ‘Above Highest Estimates’ in Iraq

Dahr Jamail Inter Press Service
By Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail*

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BAQUBA, Jun 2 (IPS) – The real number of the dead is far higher than even the highest declared in death tolls, many Iraqis say.

A study by doctors from the Johns Hopkins School of Health in conjunction with Iraqi doctors from al-Mustanceriya University in Baghdad, published in the British medical journal The Lancet in October 2006, estimated the number of excess deaths as a result…

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