Death Counts

Category: Genocide

September 2004: World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that the first 18 months of the conflict caused approximately 50,000 deaths which were mostly due to starvation rather than violence.

In October 2004, the WHO put the number at some 70,000 for the March to October period of that year but the report was flawed and heavily criticized because the WHO counted only deaths by starvation and disease, not by actual violence

On March 30th, 2005 (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30582172.htm) the death toll- including death by violent means- was estimated at 300,000 by a British Parliamentary Group.

In March 2005, the UN’s Emergency Relief Coordinator reported that close to 10,000 people were dying per month as a result of ethnic violence.

In April 2005, the Coalition for International Justice put the death toll at 400,000; later that year, the Coalition raised the death toll to 450,000.

On the 21st of September 2006, the UN News Service published a report which put the death toll at over 400,00 deaths since the beginning of the conflict. The report went on to say that approximately 2 million people lost their homes as a result of the conflict. These are the figures most commonly referenced when discussing the conflict’s (rather, genocide’s) casualty count.