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| | Voices in the Wilderness : 100,000 + The Likely Death Toll In Iraq |
 | | The number of violent deaths in Falluja was much higher than in the other areas visited: ‘More than a third of reported post-attack deaths (n=53), and two-thirds of violent deaths (n=52) happened in the Falluja cluster.’ Because of this, the Falluja data was excluded in calculating the 100,000 figure. |
 | | The estimate was compiled by adding together the ‘deaths per person-month’ for all households in each cluster, and adding together all 32 clusters, for the period before the war, and for the period after the invasion. |
 | | Given the incentive for households to under-report deaths in general, in order to maximise food rations, and to under-report deaths of insurgents in particular, in order to avoid the attention of the authorities, there is reason to suspect further under-estimation of the death toll. |
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