The Big Picture
Vincent Boland: Each life lost to war is a person with a name and a story
The terrible conflict grinds on in Ukraine, with estimates of 200,000 soldiers from both sides killed and wounded up to November, along with 40,000 Ukrainian civilian deaths, and each number is an abomination
One of the most terrible and necessary things in wartime is to account for and identify the dead, because every one of them is a person with a name and a story.
In 2008, a survey conducted by a London-based organisation concluded that one million Iraqis had been killed since the US-led invasion of their country five years earlier. Its methodology was dismissed by some survey experts as flawed, and the toll was disputed angrily ...