Thread by @CSRAPeace

>37 million people have
fled their homes in the eight most violent wars the U.S. military has launched or participated in since 2001 watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/fil…
#peace #EndWar #GlobalWarOnTerror #GWOT #NatSec #HumanRights

#USA has fought in >=24 countries since 2001

Sources cited:
hsdl.org/?abstract&did=…

davidvine.net/unitedstatesof…

Conditions in #Yemen are so bad people can't even leave the country

sanaacenter.org/publications/a…

internal-displacement.org/countries/yemen

“virtually all [emphasis added] Somalis have been displaced by violence at least once in their life.”

USA has been intervening since 2002 in #Somalia

inthesetimes.com/article/us-air…

time.com/5879354/civili…

Rotational deployments of U.S. forces and large-scale military exercises involving as many as 6,000 U.S. personnel have disguised a de facto permanent U.S. deployment involved in counterinsurgency operations. #Philippines

nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s…

Many displaced Iraqis have returned to #Iraq, but primarily because conditions in the countries to which they fled were awful internal-displacement.org/sites/default/…

Many people don't register as refugees. Therefore number of displaced persons is likely underestimated
internal-displacement.org/publications/p…

Our 37 million estimate is also conservative because it does not include millions more who have been displaced during other post-9/11 wars and conflicts where U.S. forces have been involved in relatively limited but still substantial ways.

internal-displacement.org/publications/2…

International Displacement Monitoring Centre, "ASSESSING THE SEVERITY OF DISPLACEMENT"
Feb 2020

internal-displacement.org/publications/a….

How do we stop the damage we are causing and what can we do to repair the harms?