[GPRI] FW: Press Release: 4/4 Presentation on Casualty Toll in Iraq

[Greg Gerritt]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:           Joanne DeVoe, East Bay Citizens for Peace
                                Phone: (401) 247-3004

WAR AND HEALTH:  THE CASUALTY TOLL IN IRAQ

Les Roberts, Ph.D., will present his study on mortality after the 2003
invasion of Iraq: 
Wednesday, April 4th, 7 PM, in Salomon 101, Main Green, Brown University.

Dr. Roberts and his team evaluated deaths in Iraq before and after the 2003
invasion, in a Johns Hopkins study published October, 2006, in "the Lancet",
a peer reviewed British medical journal.  The government and media have
tried to ignore the resulting estimate of 655,000 war deaths.  A recent
survey of Americans found that on average they believe correctly that about
3,000 U.S. soldiers have died.  However, the survey also found that
Americans believe that only about 3,000 Iraqis have died, while this study
estimates that the real number of Iraqi deaths is probably 200 times higher.
Dr. Roberts will explain the study and compare it with other published
estimates of Iraqi war deaths.

Dr. Roberts was trained at the Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA in
refugee health.  He teaches at Columbia University's Program on Forced
Migrations.  The presentation is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by:  Operation Iraqi Freedom, Brown University;  Respond/Design,
Rhode Island School of Design;  Program in Public Health, Brown University;
Rhode Island Community Coalition for Peace;  East Bay Citizens for Peace;
American Friends Service Committee;  Watson Institute for International
Studies, Brown University;  Sarah Doyle Women's Center, Brown University;
and Physicians for Human Rights, Brown Medical School.

For more information, please call: East Bay Citizens for Peace:  (401)
247-3004, 
or Email: American Friends Service Committee:  sene at afsc.org


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