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Originally Posted by blankall
The gender gap is always significant.
Civilians are more likely to be women, while almost all combatants are men.
So if you have a death toll where 90+ percent of casualties are men but they are claiming that 70 percent of casualties are civilians, it's suggests something is off.
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For what it's worth, the ITIC numbers indicate a 50/50 split between civilians and militants, so again, 50% would be on the low end of the civilian death counts.