# During War on Taliban, Exactly/Roughly How Many Afghan Civilians Were Killed?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 12, 2003, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/during-war-on-taliban-exactly-roughly-how-many-afghan-civilians-were-killed/160828 "2003-03-12T15:11:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![anonplz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@anonplz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anonplz)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/during-war-on-taliban-exactly-roughly-how-many-afghan-civilians-were-killed/160828/1 "2003-03-12T15:11:31Z")

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And is there a reliable source for citing that information?

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**Author:** ![Destination\_Unknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@Destination\_Unknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Destination_Unknown)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/during-war-on-taliban-exactly-roughly-how-many-afghan-civilians-were-killed/160828/2 "2003-03-12T17:07:37Z")

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[url=http://www.afgha.com/?af=article&sid=15827&query=civilian%20death%20toll#query]here’s a start

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**Author:** ![yme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/35a633/32.png) [@yme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yme)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/during-war-on-taliban-exactly-roughly-how-many-afghan-civilians-were-killed/160828/3 "2003-03-12T17:55:30Z")

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[here’s a start](http://www.afgha.com/?af=article&sid=15827&query=civilian%20death%20toll#query)

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**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/during-war-on-taliban-exactly-roughly-how-many-afghan-civilians-were-killed/160828/4 "2003-03-12T19:08:38Z")

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You’ll never know; with numbers absolutely that low God alone knows what happened. At this point, its pretty much every idelogue for himself.

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**Author:** ![Daoloth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Daoloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daoloth)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/during-war-on-taliban-exactly-roughly-how-many-afghan-civilians-were-killed/160828/5 "2003-03-12T20:34:38Z")

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A median between a slew of sources suggests about 1,134-1,500. [Here](http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/wars21c.htm#USTerror) is a compendium of sources relating to the war.