Thread by @itjpsl

Another ITJP infographic summarising the various information sources regarding estimates for the death toll in the 2009 war in #srilanka:

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#TAMIL
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#SINHALA
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#lka

Let’s look first at the UN contemporaneously collected data (Petrie report) - 54,715 casualties (including injured some of whom may not have survived) in just 4 months in a tiny area of land in #SriLanka - 7,737 of the names of dead were corroborated by 3 sources.

The UN contemporaneous data did not include the most devastating final weeks of the 2009 war - rough estimates for which below - but there was nobody able to count by then. #lka

This results in the following estimates - including the #lka govt. one of 7000 dead which now matches the most conservative UN minimum count for Jan-April 2009. Noting of course #srilanka said at the time it was a 'zero civilian casualty humanitarian operation' & denied this data

& finally there is the subtraction approach - subtracting survivors of the #lka war in Vanni from previous population - which results in very disturbing numbers unaccounted for.

#SriLanka