Tuesday, August 19, 2014

A new trend in counting casualties in Gaza

From Krim: "This is part of a new trend in Western MSM to play down Gaza casualty figures. And if they get away with doing it in Gaza they will probably try to do it somewhere else tomorrow.

"Caution needed with Gaza casualty figures"

"So there were 226 members of armed groups killed, and another 709 men who were civilians. Among civilians, three times as many men were killed as women, while three times as many civilian men were killed as fighters.
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Nonetheless, the proportion of civilian men over 18 killed seems high and it is not immediately obvious why."

This reminds me of how the US government classifies every military age man it kills as an insurgent or terrorist."