@Finallyloggedin good post
I have been observing the UN death toll dispute with increasing frustration. I don’t understand what the issue was. It seems manufactured to me.
The UN used to show the death toll of men, women, and children by the number of dead bodies they had counted.
The UN then did another death toll of men, women, children and elderly by the number of dead bodies that they have identified who they were- their name, sex, age and ID#
There was a propaganda push where people were supposedly confused and thought identifying a dead body, was identifying a body as dead instead of identifying, well their identity, who they were. So there was a big fake news about the UN cutting the death toll of women and children in half. Rubbish.
It has been somewhat clarified BUT some are still thinking that the ratio of men to women to children’s bodies identified as to who they were means the death toll ratios showing more women and children killed was wrong.
It wasn’t wrong, both are right and the reason why a higher % of men’s bodies have been identified than women’s bodies and a higher % of women’s bodies than children’s bodies is for one simple reason.
The bigger a human you are, the more of a body or larger pieces of a body there is left to identify who the body was when looking at the human remains post shelling or bombing or decomposition in a mass grave.
I worked on disaster recovery teams…this is the sad fact.
The less there is of a body, the longer it takes to identify who that body was.
Mens bodies are the biggest, so they are the easiest and fastest to identify- match to an identity of a man
Children’s bodies are the smallest, so they are the hardest and slowest to indentify- match to an identity of a child. In addition children usually have the fewest identity records on file unlike adults. This makes it even harder.