The disaster brought by war to mankind

The war of World War II spread to Asia, Europe and Africa, with as many as 6 1 country, the population participating in the war reaching10.7 billion, and the total number of mobilized armed forces exceeding 1. 1 billion. The total number of military casualties in the participating countries exceeded 50 million, and with the addition of civilians, the total number of casualties reached 90 million. The total military expenditure of participating countries is 654.38 USD +035.2 million USD. Together with financial consumption and material losses, the total loss reached 4 trillion US dollars. ?

The anti-fascist countries and people who directly participated in the war paid a huge human and financial price. During the war, the total casualties of the Soviet Union, the United States and Britain reached 6.5438+0.86 million, while the casualties of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union reached 20 million. Property losses in the United States amounted to $350 billion, in the Soviet Union to $200 billion, in Britain to $654.38+05 billion, and in China to more than $654.38+00 billion. ?

The fascist countries themselves suffered heavy losses in the great war. During the war, Germany mobilized a total of 65.438+0.7 million troops, accounting for 26.5438+0.5% of the country's total population, resulting in 65.438+0.65438+0.7 million military casualties and economic losses of 300 billion US dollars. Japan mobilized 9.7 million troops, accounting for 12.8% of the country's total population. The total number of casualties in the army reached 2 1 6100000, and the economic loss reached1100 million dollars. For thousands of years, mankind has recorded more than 15000 wars, directly or indirectly killing 3.5 billion people. In the past 100 years alone, the economic losses caused by the war in the world exceeded $5 trillion. This war not only caused great losses to innocent people's lives and property, but also caused serious environmental pollution. ?

"Zero casualties" is not zero?

"Zero casualties" is the goal pursued by the initiators of recent local wars. They tried to achieve their "zero casualties". However, despite their advantages in high-tech weapons and equipment, "zero casualties" has not become a reality. It has caused great and painful casualties to civilians in combat areas. ?

199 1 year, 2278 Iraqi civilians died directly in the war, and more than 654.38+million people died indirectly in the war, not to mention hundreds of thousands of refugees were displaced, and the overall economic level of Iraq was retrogressed for 30 years. ?

The Kosovo war killed more than 2,000 civilians, injured more than 6,000 civilians, and there are nearly one million refugees in Yugoslavia. In the war in Afghanistan, 3,767 civilians were killed and 300,000 refugees appeared. ?

In the Iraq war that broke out in the first half of this year, American warplanes dropped more than 28,000 bombs. According to the statistics of the U.S. Department of Defense, * * * caused more than 1 000 Iraqi civilians to die. The Associated Press said that at least 3,240 civilians were killed and about 8,000 people were injured. According to relevant scholars, more than 1 10,000 civilians may have died during the whole war. There are many women and children among the dead. For example, at a highway checkpoint near Karbala, US troops opened fire on an escaping truck, killing two women and five children. When the soldiers went to check it out, a surviving woman still clung to her two murdered children. ?

"Precision Strike" is not accurate?

The initiators of the war have repeatedly boasted that their weapons can carry out "precise strikes." However, a large number of civilian casualties strongly countered this lie. ?

1999 April 12, NATO's "Precision Strike" weapons hit an international train from Belgrade to Soren, Greece, causing 10 deaths and 16 injuries. In early May, the U.S. military dropped a cluster bomb on a vegetable market in Nish, and the building collapsed immediately, causing rivers of blood. NATO bombed many villages, bridges, refugee convoys, schools, hospitals and even the Embassy of China in Yugoslavia. ?

In the war in Afghanistan, a large number of civilians were also killed by "precision strikes". Where hundreds of sophisticated cruise missiles and tens of thousands of tons of high-performance bombs fell, ordinary Afghans suffered the tragic fate of family destruction and death. 200110/On 23 October, in a village 60 kilometers northeast of Kandahar, more than 40 Afghans were killed, including one 18. 200 1 12 On February 20th, American warplanes bombed the motorcade of some tribal elders and local government officials around Khost, Paktia province, killing 65 people. These people should have gone to Kabul, the capital, to attend the inauguration ceremony of the interim government. ?

During the Iraq war, American troops killed many civilians while crossing a bridge over the Diana River. An old man walking on the road with a cane was shot several times in a row. A woman who was killed, her luggage was scattered around her. Her home in Baghdad was bombed. She tried to escape from the city with her relatives, but she was killed in this way. ?

Is "clean war" unclean?

There are still people in the western military circles who advocate that the recent high-tech war is a "clean war", which is even more a big lie. Because a large number of special weapons, especially depleted uranium bombs and other weapons with harmful radiation effects have been put into the battlefield, the war not only directly caused casualties among civilians in the war zone, but also polluted the local ecological environment. ?

The results of sampling test show that the pollution of depleted uranium bombs in these wars is more harmful to local residents and the environment than the allowable dose 1000 times. During the Gulf War, the US military fired hundreds of thousands of depleted uranium bombs into Iraq, and the total amount of depleted uranium reached 3 15 tons. After the war, the number of Iraqis, especially children, suffering from various strange radiation diseases increased greatly, and the number of cancer patients increased sharply. The cancer mortality rate of children increased by 7.2 times compared with that before the war. 1800 newborns born from August, 1999 to August, 1999 10, including 10 newborns without brain tissue, 8 hydrocephalus and 6 limb deformities. This figure seriously exceeds the normal proportion of one in ten thousand newborns. ?

The extensive use of depleted uranium bombs not only brought great disaster to the attacked party, but also damaged the health of users of depleted uranium bombs. The "Gulf War Syndrome" and "Balkan Syndrome" obtained by many officers and men who participated in these wars are proof. ?

This paper lists the losses caused by major wars since the 20th century, so as to show that, especially after the 20th century, with the progress of science and technology, the means of war are constantly enriched, and the war has caused greater harm to mankind.

According to incomplete statistics, the First World War lasted four years and three months, with 33 countries and a population of more than 654.38+0.5 billion. The two sides of the war mobilized 65.4 million troops, with more than 30 million casualties, direct war costs of 654.38+0863 billion dollars and property losses of 330 billion dollars. ?

The Second World War lasted for six years, and more than 60 countries and regions participated in the war successively, affecting 2 billion people. The two sides of the war mobilized 1. 1 100 million troops, more than 70 million soldiers and civilians died, property losses reached 4 trillion US dollars, and direct war costs135.2 million US dollars. ?

The Vietnam War, which lasted 14 years, was the longest and most intense large-scale local war after the Second World War. During the war, 6,543,800 people died in Vietnam, and more than 6,543,800 people became refugees. 57,000 people died and more than 300,000 people were injured in the United States; The war cost more than 200 billion dollars. ?

The Iran-Iraq war lasted for nearly eight years. Iran suffered more than 600,000 casualties and Iraq suffered more than 400,000 casualties. There are more than 3 million homeless refugees in both countries. The sharp drop in oil revenue and the damage to production facilities in both countries exceeded $540 billion. The total losses of the two countries in this war amounted to 900 billion dollars. The war has delayed the economic development plans of the two countries for at least 20 to 30 years. ?

The Gulf War lasted 42 days. 286 Americans were killed, 3,636 wounded and 55 captured or missing. The armies of other countries also suffered slight losses. On the Iraqi side, there were nearly 654.38 million casualties and 86,000 prisoners. Kuwait lost 60 billion in direct war, Iraq lost about 200 billion, and the US war cost 60 billion. ?

The Kosovo war lasted 78 days. The US-led NATO * * * dispatched 20,000 sorties, dropped 2 1000 tons of bombs and launched 300 cruise missiles, which caused serious damage to military, civil and industrial facilities and residential areas in most parts of Yugoslavia. The air strikes also killed more than 0/000 innocent civilians in FRY/KLOC, and hundreds of thousands of Albanians became refugees. Depleted uranium bombs used in the war and cluster bombs prohibited by the Geneva Conventions lead to neonatal leukemia and various malformations. The continuous bombing has also seriously deteriorated the ecological environment of Yugoslavia and its neighboring countries and regions. ?

The First World War brought unprecedented disasters to people all over the world. How many troops were mobilized by the allied forces during the war? 42 1.8 million people lost 22 1 10,000 people, of which 5 1.5 million people died. Allied forces mobilized a total of 22.85 million troops, resulting in heavy losses. More than15.4 million people, including 3.8 million deaths. The direct war cost of the warring parties is about 654.38 $+086.3 billion. ? .