Civilian casualties have dramatically increased due to the changing nature of warfare.
World War I: civilians accounted for less than 20% of all deaths.
World War II: they made up 48% of all deaths.
Civilians account for 80% of the war dead in more recent conflicts.
Estimates are that more than 2 million children perished as a result of war in the last 10 years of the 20th century, with over 6 million injured or permanently disabled.
The current US military conflicts, Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in Iraq, have also resulted in a significant incidence of pediatric trauma.
War does NOT protect civilians; it kills them.
Source:
Textbook published by The Borden Institute, an agency of the US Army Medical Department Center & School.
http://www.bordeninstitute.army.mil/...pediatric.html
Pediatric Surgery and Medicine for Hostile Environments
The test of the morality of a society
is what it does for its children.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906?1945)
World War I: civilians accounted for less than 20% of all deaths.
World War II: they made up 48% of all deaths.
Civilians account for 80% of the war dead in more recent conflicts.
Estimates are that more than 2 million children perished as a result of war in the last 10 years of the 20th century, with over 6 million injured or permanently disabled.
The current US military conflicts, Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in Iraq, have also resulted in a significant incidence of pediatric trauma.
War does NOT protect civilians; it kills them.
Source:
Textbook published by The Borden Institute, an agency of the US Army Medical Department Center & School.
http://www.bordeninstitute.army.mil/...pediatric.html
Pediatric Surgery and Medicine for Hostile Environments
The test of the morality of a society
is what it does for its children.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906?1945)
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