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East Timor Death Toll: The Ceiling That Was Read as a Total (Cold Files 018)
COLD FILES 018. East Timor, April 1974 to October 1999. Three datasets, published error bars, and a famine-only high end that the counting body itself went on to describe in print as a total.
chris Naganuma
Oct 169 min read
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Halabja Chemical Attack: The One Inference That Outlived the Evidence (Cold Files 016)
COLD FILES 016. Halabja and Anfal, April 1987 to September 1988. One intelligence assessment written seven days after the gassing, an Army imprint that printed it as a conclusion, and the eighteen tons of Iraqi paper that ended the argument.
chris Naganuma
Oct 99 min read
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Biafra War Death Toll: The Forecast That Became a Count (Cold Files 013)
COLD FILES 013. Nigeria and Biafra, July 1967 to January 1970. A number published before the dying it described, a census cancelled before it could test it, and the one survey that went in and reported that the dead could not be counted.
chris Naganuma
Sep 299 min read
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US Bombing of North Korea: The Korean War Statistics, Checked (Cold Files 008)
COLD FILES 008. 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953. The US strategic bombing of North Korea: what the American record actually says, and why most of the statistics in circulation are wrong.
chris Naganuma
Sep 219 min read
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Cold Files 007: The War That Was Never Filed. Kenya, 1952 to 1960
COLD FILES 007. Kenya, October 1952 to January 1960. The Pipeline, the Hola camp, and 1,500 colonial files flown out of Nairobi nine days before independence.
chris Naganuma
Sep 119 min read
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Indonesia 1965 Killings: How Many Died, and the Government Built on Them (Cold Files 005)
Indonesia, 30 September 1965 to March 1966. Six months, an estimated half a million dead, a million more in camps, and a state built on both.
chris Naganuma
Sep 119 min read
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