ChronologyofTerror.html. The Ukrainian authorities claim Wagner forces destroyed six Russian helicopters and a plane during their short-lived rebellion on Saturday. 1.Jonathan Bor 654,000 Deaths Tied to Iraq War Baltimore Sun , October 11,2006, 2.Newshttp://www.unknownnews.net/casualties.html, 1.Post-1967 Palestinian & Israeli Deaths from Occupation & Violence May 16, 2006http://globalavoidablemortality.blogspot.com/2006/05/post-1967-palestinian-israeli-deaths.html), http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html, 1.James I. Matray Revisiting Korea: Exposing Myths of the Forgotten War, Korean War Teachers Conference: The Korean War, February 9, 2001http://www.truman/library.org/Korea/matray1.htm, 2.William Blum, Killing Hope (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1995), p. 46. position and killed the first man with his pistol. Over 30,000 US Veterans of Post-9/11 Wars Have Killed Themselves Since 2001 6.Peter Dale Scott, The United States and the Overthrow of Sukarno, 1965-1967, Pacific Affairs, 58, Summer 1985, pages 239-264.http://www.namebase.org/scott. But the victims are not just from big nations or one part of the world. (1) The captured exiles were quickly tried, a few executed and the rest sentenced to thirty years in prison for treason. ex-president. 3.BBC 1988: US Warship Shoots Down Iranian Airliner, 1.Michael Dobbs, U.S. Had Key role in Iraq Buildup, Washington Post December 30, 2002, p A01, 2.Global Security.Org , Iran Iraq War (1980-1980), 1.Post-1967 Palestinian & Israeli Deaths from Occupation & Violence May 16, 2006, 1.James I. Matray Revisiting Korea: Exposing Myths of the Forgotten War, Korean War Teachers Conference: The Korean War, February 9, 2001, 3.Kanako Tokuno, Chinese Winter Offensive in Korean War the Debacle of American Strategy, ICE Case Studies Number 186, May, 2006, 5.Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, as reported in Answers.com, 6.Exploring the Environment: Korean Enigma, 7.S. List of federal death row inmates. The US and Britain respectively lost more than 400,000 lives. greater because leaders can order the use of nukes without triggering to replace the computer-coded nuclear football with a small capsule Virtual Truth Commissonhttp://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/, 8.Korean War Casualty Statisticswww.century china.com/history/krwarcost.html), 9.S. Defense spending decreased 5.3% in 2022 and was 16.7% lower than its 2010 peak. Brazil See South America: Operation Condor. Four sources give deaths counts ranging from 1.8 to 4.5 million. Theres a time when you have to strike hard at a decisive moment. (1,2,3) Estimates of the number of deaths range from 500,000 to 3 million. In 1971 he staged a successful coup with the help of the U.S. Air Force radio system. William Henry Harrison: During that time their private terrorist force killed between 30,000 and 100,000 people. (1), During that time U.S. military advisers demonstrated methods of torture on teenage prisoners, according to an interview with a deserter from the Salvadoran army published in the New York Times. New York). As a part of the public relations strategy to energize the American public into supporting an attack against Iraq the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S. falsely testified before Congress that Iraqi troops were pulling the plugs on incubators in Iraqi hospitals. An accurate count of the number of deaths is not easy to achieve, and this collection of data was undertaken with full realization of this fact. 5.US trained butchers of Timor, The Guardian, London. The Colombian government has been charged with using most of the funds for destruction of crops and support of the paramilitary group. There were ethnic and religious differences between various parts of Yugoslavia which were manipulated by the U.S. to cause several wars which resulted in the dissolution of that country. 2.William Blum, Rogue State (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000), p.154. Social In 1944 his plane was shot down during an aerial fight. Effort was needed to arrive at the figures of six million Jews killed during WWII, but knowledge of that number now is widespread and it has fueled the determination to prevent future holocausts. This former member of the Salvadoran National Guard testified that he was a member of a squad of twelve who found people who they were told were guerillas and tortured them. being the only president to have served as a sheriff (in Erie County, fighter during the First Seminole War. (1), During the war the bulk of the deaths were South Koreans, North Koreans and Chinese. Some of the Iraqis were mercilessly killed on the Highway of Death and about 400 tons of depleted uranium were left in that nation by the U.S. (2,3). Theodore Roosevelt: Not The author can be contacted at[emailprotected], The U.S. is responsible for between 1 and 1.8 million deaths during the war between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, by luring the Soviet Union into invading that nation. Totals include both hostile or battle deaths from combat along with deaths from causes such as accidents or illness. A so-called preemptivenuclearwar againstChina and Russia is on the drawing board of the Pentagon. war_crimes/srebrenica/bosnia_numbers.html). 5.Chalmers Johnson, Blowback, The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2000), p. 18. Some people estimate that the number of Cuban forces killed range from 2,000, to 4,000. Bush: As 2.Virtual Truth Commission, Telling the Truth for a Better Americawww.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/condor.htm). (1), Also see: See South America: Operation Condor, Brazil: See South America: Operation Condor. For publication of Global Research articles in print or other forms including commercial internet sites, contact: [emailprotected]. http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/, 4.Fred Branfman, U.S. War Crimes in Indochiona and our Duty to Truth August 26, 2004, www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=6105§ionID=1, 5.David K Shipler, Robert McNamara and the Ghosts of Vietnamnytimes.com/library/world/asia/081097vietnam-mcnamara.html, 1.Sara Flounders, Bosnia Tragedy:The Unknown Role of the Pentagon in NATO in the Balkans (New York: International Action Center) p. 47-75, 2.James A. Lucas, Media Disinformation on the War in Yugoslavia: The Dayton Peace Accords Revisited, Global Research, September 7, 2005 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context= During a battle against Iranian gunboats it fired two missiles at an Iranian Airbus, which was on a routine civilian flight. on an enemy position with only a few men. University of Washington and an HNN blogger, writes in his book, The While in some other wars we learned much later about the lies that were used to deceive us, some of the deceptions that were used to get us into this war became known almost as soon as they were uttered. Even when Vietnam latrer invaded Cambodia in 1979 the CIA was still supporting the Khmer Rouge. Consider the "Great Stink" of 1858 London, As More Schools Ban "Maus," Art Spiegelman Fears Worse to Come, PEN Condemns Censorship in Removal of Coates's Memoir from AP Course. direct role in the fighting. lieutenant. 4.Gary Cohn and Ginger Thompson, Unearthed: Fatal Secrets, Baltimore Sun, reprint of a series that appeared June 11-18, 1995 in Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, School of Assassins, p. 46 Orbis Books 2001. 2.Richard Keeble, Crimes Against Humanity in Chad, Znet/Activism 12/4/06http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=11560§ionID=1). (1), It was established on November 25, 1975 in Chile by an act of the Interamerican Reunion on Military Intelligence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in Afghanistan), 6.The CIAs Intervention in Afghanistan, Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, 15-21 January 1998, Posted at globalresearch.ca 15 October 2001,http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BRZ110A.html, 7.William Blum, Rogue State (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000), p.5, 8.Unknown News,http://www.unknownnews.net/casualtiesw.html, 1.Howard W. French From Old Files, a New Story of the U.S. Role in the Angolan War New York Times 3/31/02. 2.Mark Zepezauer, The CIAS Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1994), p 87. David P. Barash, a professor of psychology at the John H. Kim, a U.S. Army veteran and the Chair of the Korea Committee of Veterans for Peace, stated in an article that during the Korean War the U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy were directly involved in the killing of about three million civilians both South and North Koreans at many locations throughout KoreaIt is reported that the U.S. dropped some 650,000 tons of bombs, including 43,000 tons of napalm bombs, during the Korean War. It is presumed that this total does not include Chinese casualties. Field Artillery Division. http://www.guardian.co.uk/archive /article/0,4273,41-07884,00.html. close engagements in both the French and Indian Wars (1754-1763) and All Global Research articlescan be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Websitedrop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). Democratic Republic of Congo (Formerly Zaire), 1.F. We are making such material available to our readers under the provisions of "fair use" in an effort to advance a better understanding of political, economic and social issues. Uruguay See South America: Operation Condor, 1.Mark Zepezauer, The CIAS Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine:Common Courage Press,1994), p 24. The Centre of Research on Globalization grants permission to cross-post Global Research articles on community internet sites as long the source and copyright are acknowledged together with a hyperlink to the original Global Research article. politicians publicly endorse capital punishment. Free Books! U.S. bombing of Cambodia had already been underway for several years in secret under the Johnson and Nixon administrations, but when President Nixon openly began bombing in preparation for a land assault on Cambodia it caused major protests in the U.S. against the Vietnam War. (2,3), A. kill someone involves we humans have to feel what its like. 1.Virtual Truth Commissionhttp://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/. 2023 Current State of the Union: US Military & Defense - USAFacts (4,5). Harrison fought the combined forces of British and Native Americans. What is an implosion, and what would it have been like for the Titanic Indian wars and the War of 1812, Harrison fought in close combat Notes. (2), About 900 villagers were massacred in the village of El Mozote in 1981. Research found that police officers killed more than 30,000 people from 1980 to 2018 - 17,000 more than official federal data suggests. 1.St. 1.Mark Zepezauer, Boomerang, (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2003), p. 30, 32,34,36. this particular battle, Roosevelt was first to reach the enemy Kennedy commanded PT-109. This can be interpeted to mean that at least 200,000 died. 5. Since 1955, when it gained its independence, Sudan has been involved most of the time in a civil war. The U.S. played a role in that change of government. Germany and Austria lostapproximately8 million people during WWII, Japan lost more than 2.5 million people. Lieutenant Colonel would have had no other choice than to take a His anti-clergy strategy, known as the Banzer Plan, was adopted by nine other Latin American dictatorships in 1977. He was forced by the U.S. to leave office and now lives in South Africa. While he lacked the luster of a military career, unlike (1,2). Jeffress Ramsey, Africa (Guilford Connecticut, 1997), p. 85, 2. Paraguay See South America: Operation Condor. taking him to his PT base in the Solomon Islands, was attacked by 2.William Blum, Rogue State (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000), p. 142-143. reputation early on in his career as a fearless and ruthless Indian U.S. Military Deaths by War Since WWI He advocated such programs as land reform and public works programs. Its reasonable to assume that if the U.S. aid a government to come to power it will feel obligated to give the U.S. part of the oil pie. He may never have seen who his bombs killed, but his actions Hugo Banzer was the leader of a repressive regime in Bolivia in the 1970s. Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990 and the U.S. responded by demanding that Iraq withdraw, and four days later the U.N. levied international sanctions. Although Americans understand in the abstract the wisdom of people around the world empathizing with the suffering of one another, such a reminder of wrongs committed by our nation got little hearing and was soon overshadowed by an accelerated war on terrorism.. They are Profit Driven. Every day, these military men and women are working diligently to protect our freedoms, while often facing life-threatening dangers. China An estimated 900,000 Chinese died during the Korean War. As a leader in the Northwest 6.The CIAs Intervention in Afghanistan, Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, 15-21 January 1998, Posted at globalresearch.ca 15 October 2001. Stanislav Voskresensky expressed condolences to the family and friends of the Il-22 aircraft crew killed on June 24 while performing military duty . 2.Angolan Update, American Friends Service Committee FS, 11/1/99 flyer. Argentina : See South America: Operation Condor, 1. In 1999 the Washington Post reported that an Historical Clarification Commission concluded that over 200,000 people had been killed during the civil war and that there had been 42,000 individual human rights violations, 29,000 of them fatal, 92% of which were committed by the army. The civil war from 1981 to1992 in El Salvador was financed by $6 billion in U.S. aid given to support the government in its efforts to crush a movement to bring social justice to the people in that nation of about 8 million people. The loss of life in the second World War (1939-1945) was on a much large scale, when compared to World War I: 60 million lives both military and civilian were lost during World War II. This was the headquarters for the Guatemalan dirty war against leftist insurgents and suspected allies. killed, nor is it specifically documented that he killed any men at (4) Torture equipment and manuals were provided by CIA Argentinean personnel who worked with U.S. agents in the training of the Hondurans. An indigenous armed struggle against Portuguese rule in Angola began in 1961. (1) See Iraq for more information about that war. In that capacity he personally hanged two men. (5), In 1956 Hungary, a Soviet satellite nation, revolted against the Soviet Union. 10. At that time Henry Kissinger, U.S. Secretary of State, said the following regarding Chile: I dont see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist because of the irresponsibility of its own people. (1), During 17 years of terror under Allendes successor, General Augusto Pinochet, an estimated 3,000 Chileans were killed and many others were tortured or disappeared. (2,3,4,5). They collect this kind of data from the police all over the country. controversies. (4,5), According to the Commission between 1981 and 1983 the military government of Guatemala financed and supported by the U.S. government destroyed some four hundred Mayan villages in a campaign of genocide. Notre site en Franais: mondialisation.ca. if the people who back war or capital punishment had to kill people (1) Millions of dollars in CIA subsidies flowed into Haiti during that time, mainly to suppress popular movements, (2) although most American military aid to the country, according to William Blum, was covertly channeled through Israel. www.stanford.edu/group/arts/nicaragua/discovery_eng/timeline/). Some people estimate that the number of Cuban forces killed range from 2,000, to 4,000. For several years I heard statements on radio that three million Cambodians had been killed under the rule of the Khmer Rouge. 6.Mark Zepezauer, The CIAS Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1994), p.54. Not all U.S. presidents are missed once they leave the White House. In some instances nations other than the U.S. may have been responsible for more deaths, but if the involvement of our nation appeared to have been a necessary cause of a war or conflict it was considered responsible for the deaths in it. 4.Mark Zepezauer, CIAS Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1994), p.83. Their hopes were raised then dashed by these broadcasts which cast an even darker shadow over the Hungarian tragedy. (1) The Hungarian and Soviet death toll was about 3,000 and the revolution was crushed. [1] Executions by the Army (WW2 and Post War) The United States Army carried out 141 [2] executions over a three-year period from 1942 to 1945 and a further six executions were conducted during the postwar period, for a known total of 147. The debris was said to be evidence that the submersible likely suffered a catastrophic implosion during its descent to the Titanic shipwreck on Sunday. http://www.answers.com/topic/hungarian-revolution-of-1956. (3), In December, 1989 U.S. troops invaded Panama, ostensibly to arrest Manuel Noriega, that nations president. battle. (1,2,3), An estimated 40,000 people in Chad were killed and as many as 200,000 tortured by a government, headed by Hissen Habre who was brought to power in June, 1982 with the help of CIA money and arms. 3.Noam Chomsky, Chomsky on Cambodia under Pol Pot, etc., 2.Richard Keeble, Crimes Against Humanity in Chad, Znet/Activism 12/4/06, 3.Millions Killed by Imperialism Washington Post May 6, 2002). The North Korea government claimed that by 1949 the South Korean army committed 2,617 armed incursions. 1.Geoff Simons, Iraq from Sumer to Saddam, 1996, St. Martins Press, NY p. 317. fighting. Reportedly, governments after the second Duvalier reign were responsible for an even larger number of fatalities, and the influence on Haiti by the U.S., particularly through the CIA, has continued. However, a court there blocked these proceedings. Murdered 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in Virginia . an older sailor with a rifle. The overall conclusion reached is that the United States most likely has been responsible since WWII for the deaths of between 20 and 30 million people in wars and conflicts scattered over the world. (3), 5.U.S Involvement in Afghanistan, Wikipedia. his wife and postwar notes. Human rights groups have complained that U.S. policies have helped to prolong the Sudanese civil war by supporting efforts to overthrow the central government in Khartoum. Jackson fought in so many In 1965 when a group was trying to reinstall him to his office President Johnson said, This Bosch is no good. Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Mann replied Hes no good at all. To receive Global Researchs Daily Newsletter (selected articles), Ironically, these two countries (allies of the US during WWII) which lost a large share of their. (1,2,3,4). As a result of the bombing tens of thousands may have died because of the lack of medicines to treat malaria, tuberculosis and other diseases. 4.William Blum, Killing Hope (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1995), p 158-159. The U.S. later forced out of the presidential office a black Catholic priest, Jean Bertrand Aristide, even though he was elected with 67% of the vote in the early 1990s. (3), In 1981 the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza government in Nicaragua, (1) and until 1990 about 25,000 Nicaraguans were killed in an armed struggle between the Sandinista government and Contra rebels who were formed from the remnants of Somozas national government. The invasion took place with much needless killing of Iraqi military personnel. Grover Cleveland: Bill Part of the training he received was in torture at a U.S. location somewhere in Panama.