By its reckoning, 2537 civilians were killed and 5594 were wounded over the past 2 years, with 12 % of those casualties attributed to [coalition] forces and the rest to insurgents... In February, after learning that the military was releasing these data, both the UN and an Afghan human rights organization agreed to release versions of their own
civilian casualty data to Science.
ISAF officials were concerned that sensitive information associated with
civilian casualty data — such as the tactics and movements of troops — could be revealed.
In February, after learning that the military was releasing these data, both the UN and an Afghan human rights organization agreed to release versions of their own
civilian casualty data to Science.
Not exact matches
It's notoriously difficult to collect real
data on
civilian casualties.
I was given access to military personnel at every level of the
civilian casualty — tracking system, from the collection and quality - checking of CIVCAS
data to the analysis that leads to new combat directives.
Such limitations would be solved if all
data for
civilian casualties were released at the level of individual events rather than aggregated monthly.
John Bohannon's freely available story in this week's Science contains new
data on
civilian casualties in Afghanistan that were provided exclusively to the magazine:
This includes
data visualizations from
civilian casualties in the drone war, video documentation from acts of terrorism, tracking the impact of invasive species on local ecosystems and crime scene studies from mass shootings.