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Some demographics only come to light decades later. Much though I value attempts to do this now, I suspect like the surplus deaths from Mao era policy, we won't
by ggm 2y ago
Some demographics only come to light decades later. Much though I value attempts to do this now, I suspect like the surplus deaths from Mao era policy, we won't know for a decade or more (good statisticians drove a tank through the claims in "wild swans" -the lower figures are bad enough)
- Someone 2y agoIn this case, I think we won’t ever get better estimates of the number of civilian deaths from demographics. The Palestinian authorities have a good reputation w.r.t. reporting the number of civilians killed. As the article says: The Ministry's figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services, the UN, and WHO The (linked) https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3w4w7/israeli-intelligence-health-ministry-death-toll https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3w4w7/israeli-intelligence-... says: “There’s no possibility of collecting exact data in this situation but their system is generally transparent and credible,” said the Israeli official. “But only with civilian deaths, Hamas deaths simply aren’t reported.”