That's just motivated reasoning. The UN is multidisciplinary. If you have a better source, present it.
Even if the true numbers are a quarter of the given figure that's still way too high.
Even if the true numbers are a quarter of the given figure that's still way too high.
This is going to be a major issue when the actual court case will have to rely upon it.
the numbers will always be ‘too high’ as they are the number of civilian deaths in a war.
However, if they are much lower relative to similar conflicts than that changes a lot. Currently we have no way of knowing that, yet still people attribute these numbers some magical properties