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Issue: 2212 dated: 31 July 2010 News
posted: 5.54pm Tue 27 Jul 2010

This article should be read after: Deceit and disaster: Afghanistan laid bare by leaked documents

Leaked Afghan documents: civilian deaths

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The cost of human life in Afghanistan is cheap.

The US gives compensation to families who have had relatives killed.

It raised this to around £1,500 in 2007.

But the US has accused Afghans of fabricating deaths to get money.

The leaked reports piece together a civilian death toll of 369 between January 2004 and December 2009.

This is a gross underestimate.

In January this year, a United Nations report said that 2,412 civilians were killed in 2008-9 alone.

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