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| Grenada | | Grenada | ||
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− | | Ground invasion, Operation Urgent Fury | + | | Ground invasion, Operation Urgent Fury including bombing of Richmond Hill, St Georges in October 1983 |
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| 1989 | | 1989 | ||
| Panama | | Panama | ||
| 200<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Panama US invasion of Panama-Wikipedia]</ref> | | 200<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Panama US invasion of Panama-Wikipedia]</ref> | ||
− | | Bombing, Operation Just Cause | + | | Bombing, Operation Just Cause including bombing of El Chorillo neighbourhood, Panama City in December |
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| 1990 | | 1990 | ||
| Iraq | | Iraq | ||
| 20000? | | 20000? | ||
− | | Bombing | + | | Bombing including bombing of Amiriyah, Baghdad in February 1991 |
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| 1998 | | 1998 | ||
| Sudan | | Sudan | ||
| 15 | | 15 | ||
− | | Cruise missile bombing | + | | Cruise missile bombing on North Khartoum in August |
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| 1998 | | 1998 | ||
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| Yugoslavia | | Yugoslavia | ||
| 489 | | 489 | ||
− | | NATO bombing with Depleted Uranium | + | | NATO bombing with Depleted Uranium on Novi Sad in May |
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| 2001 | | 2001 | ||
| Afghanistan | | Afghanistan | ||
| 10960 | | 10960 | ||
− | | Bombing | + | | Bombing on Chowkar-Karez |
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| 2003 | | 2003 | ||
| Iraq | | Iraq | ||
| 1000000 | | 1000000 | ||
− | | Bombing, sanctions | + | | Bombing, sanctions including bombing of Fallujah in April, November 2004 and Mukaradeeb in May 2004 |
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| 2009 | | 2009 |
Revision as of 13:31, 20 February 2010
Defining Interventions
War crimes are "violations of the laws or customs of war"; including but not limited to "murder, the ill-treatment or deportation of civilian residents of an occupied territory to slave labor camps", "the murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war", the killing of hostages, "the wanton destruction of cities, towns and villages, and any devastation not justified by military, or civilian necessity".
Year (started) | Country | Estimated Casualties | Notes |
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1945 | Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan | 200,000 | Nuclear Attack |
1952 | Korea | 2000000? | Napalm |
1964 | Laos | 70000 | Napalm |
1967 | Guatemala | Napalm | |
1970 | Cambodia | 150000[1] | Carpet bombing |
1970 | Vietnam | 10000[2] | Chemical weapons, Operation Ranch Hand |
1980 | Libya | 15[3] | Bombing |
1983 | Grenada | 23 | Ground invasion, Operation Urgent Fury including bombing of Richmond Hill, St Georges in October 1983 |
1989 | Panama | 200[4] | Bombing, Operation Just Cause including bombing of El Chorillo neighbourhood, Panama City in December |
1990 | Iraq | 20000? | Bombing including bombing of Amiriyah, Baghdad in February 1991 |
1998 | Sudan | 15 | Cruise missile bombing on North Khartoum in August |
1998 | Afghanistan | 34 | Cruise missile bombing |
1999 | Yugoslavia | 489 | NATO bombing with Depleted Uranium on Novi Sad in May |
2001 | Afghanistan | 10960 | Bombing on Chowkar-Karez |
2003 | Iraq | 1000000 | Bombing, sanctions including bombing of Fallujah in April, November 2004 and Mukaradeeb in May 2004 |
2009 | Pakistan[5] | 400[6] | Bombing |
See also
- United States of America
- Guatemalan coup d'état of 1954
- Cold War covert overthrow of governments by the US
- post-Cold War covert regime change by the US
- US military operations in the 20th and 21st centuries
- private military corporations
- Iranian coup d'état of 1953
References
- ↑ Flagrancy to Reason
- ↑ Statistics of Democide, Chapter 6, Statistics Of Vietnamese Democide: Estimates, Calculations, And Sources, By R.J. Rummel
- ↑ Bombing of Libya-Wikipedia
- ↑ US invasion of Panama-Wikipedia
- ↑ Drone attacks in Pakistan by the US-Wikipedia
- ↑ Facts on US drone attacks in Pakistan-De Welt
External links
- Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls
- What People Are Saying - Not the Enemy
- Data from William Blum book, "Rogue State" supplemented by casulty data from various sources
- Statistics of American Genocide and Mass Murder - R. J. Rummel
- U.S. Interventions - 1945 to the Present William Blum
- Timeline of United States military operations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Covert U.S. regime change actions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- History of U.S. Military Interventions since 1890 by Zoltan Grossman