At Least 37 Million People Have Been Displaced by America’s War on Terror – The New York Times

At Least 37 Million People Have Been Displaced by America’s War on Terror (Published 2020)

A new report calculates the number of people who fled because of wars fought by the United States since Sept. 11, 2001.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/magazine/displaced-war-on-terror.html

“This has been one of the major forms of damage, of course along with the deaths and injuries, that have been caused by these wars,” said David Vine, a professor of anthropology at American University and the lead author of the report. “It tells us that U.S. involvement in these countries has been horrifically catastrophic, horrifically damaging in ways that I don’t think that most people in the United States, in many ways myself included, have grappled with or reckoned with in even the slightest terms.”