One of the most startling figures contained in the Iraq war logs is the number of Iraqi citizens detained by coalition or Iraqi security forces. The reports detail the detention of 183,991 individuals, overwhelmingly military-aged males (MAMs), from all across Iraq.
Based on the CIA World Factbook’s 8.5 million estimate of the Iraqi male population, the war logs imply that around one in 50 Iraqi men were detained at some point between 2004 and 2009 – in a country in which prison conditions were far from ideal.
The data in the video is based on the total number of detainee abuses contained in each of the 391,832 records in the leaked US data.
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