Who’s Dying inside the Iraq War, in Pixels [Infographic]

This straightforward pixel diagram displays the human death toll of the Iraq war. Blue pixels are ” friendly” deaths (U.S. and coalition forces), green ones are ” host” deaths (Iraqi government), gray are ” enemy” deaths (insurgents) and orange, well, those are civilians.

It’s interesting to peer how the distribution of the causalities changed inside the diagram on the appropriate, which shows the deaths as they occurred chronologically, but the only on the left, with the deaths grouped together by category, is even more powerful. As Kamel Makhloufi, the diagram’s designer points out, ” Just understand that host nation + civilian + enemies = mostly Iraqis.” Obviously what this diagram doesn’t show is who’s doing the killing-which deaths are attributed to combat, insurgent attacks, etc. And while it’s easy to take a look at these and say ” examine all of the civillians getting killed in this war,” it’s ostensibly that kind of non-combat violence that we’re now looking to quell.

The data was culled from the documents recently published by WikiLeaks. [ Flickr via Infosthetics ]

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