Power and Principle
Journal: Cornell University Press eBooks
Year: 2017

Civilians have composed half of all war-related deaths over the past three centuries. 1 In the twentieth century, more than 170 million peoplemen, women, and children-"have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death; buried alive, hung, bombed, or killed in any of the myriad ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed helpless citizens and foreigners." 2 When civilian war casualties are combined with those targeted by their own governments, the