NEW YORKÂ -Almost one lac people have been killed and an equal number of others wounded in Afghanistan since the time the country saw the onset of a military invasion led by the US.
The study, conducted by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies in the US and titled Costs of War, compiled war-related casualty figures in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014, when US-led combat troops left Afghanistan, an international news agency reported.
According to Neta Crawford, the author of the study, some 149,000 people were killed and 162,000 others seriously wounded in the two countries during the aforementioned period.
The figures, which include civilians, militants, foreign forces and aid workers, are based on statistics from the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and other sources.
Most civilian deaths happened after 2007, with nearly 18,000 deaths recorded between 2009 and 2014. Crawford said a continuing rise in the number of civilian casualties shows that the war has not ended in Afghanistan despite the withdrawal of the US-led international combat forces from the country.
According to the United Nations, civilian casualties grew 16 per cent in the first four months of 2015, with 974 people dead and 1,963 others wounded.
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