{"id":3706,"date":"2015-02-27T14:36:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T20:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/?p=3706"},"modified":"2015-02-27T14:36:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T20:36:48","slug":"our-condolences-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/our-condolences-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Condolences, Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Cora Currier, Josh Begley, and\u00a0Margot Williams
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How much is a life worth? A decade of war in Afghanistan has left a legacy of death and destruction for the Afghan people, often at the hands of U.S. forces. Attaching a dollar figure to that suffering may be difficult, but that\u2019s precisely what the U.S. military has done.<\/p>\n

The Intercept<\/em>\u00a0obtained records for thousands of compensation payments made by the U.S. between 2003 and 2013. Some are \u201ccondolence payments\u201d for innocents killed or injured in combat operations, while others are for a wide variety of damages \u2014 a child\u2019s bicycle run over, an onion field crushed, twenty-one sheep killed in rocket fire. The payments presented here are not a comprehensive accounting of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, but scrolling through these mundane indignities can offer a small window into thousands of fractured lives and personal tragedies.<\/p>\n

Because the data is incomplete, the graphic includes only a selection of the records we obtained. For more,\u00a0see our accompanying story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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How much is a life worth? A decade of war in Afghanistan has left a legacy of death and destruction for the Afghan people, often at the hands of U.S. forces. Attaching a dollar figure to that suffering may be difficult, but that\u2019s precisely what the U.S. military has done.<\/p>\n

The Intercept<\/em>\u00a0obtained records for thousands of compensation payments made by the U.S. between 2003 and 2013. Some are \u201ccondolence payments\u201d for innocents killed or injured in combat operations, while others are for a wide variety of damages \u2014 a child\u2019s bicycle run over, an onion field crushed, twenty-one sheep killed in rocket fire. The payments presented here are not a comprehensive accounting of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, but scrolling through these mundane indignities can offer a small window into thousands of fractured lives and personal tragedies.<\/p>\n

Because the data is incomplete, the graphic includes only a selection of the records we obtained. For more,\u00a0see our accompanying story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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$250
\nU.S. forces drove through and damaged his garden
\nNANGARHAR<\/h2>\n

$1,799
\nCoalition forces shot and killed his 8 sheep
\nLAGHMAN<\/h2>\n

$57
\nU.S. Army soldier took his jacket
\nKABUL<\/h2>\n

$106
\nControlled detonation broke 8 windows in mosque
\nLOGAR<\/h2>\n

$20,000
\nConvoy hit them head on, killing their 5 y\/o daughter
\nPARWAN<\/h2>\n

$807
\nHouse ransacked mistakenly
\nHELMAND<\/h2>\n

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by Cora Currier, Josh Begley, and\u00a0Margot Williams click here for original article How much is a life worth? A decade of war in Afghanistan has left a legacy of death and destruction for the Afghan people, often at the hands of U.S. forces. Attaching a dollar figure to that suffering may be difficult, but that\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t