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Researcher Richard Garfield estimated that " a minimum of 100, 000 and a more likely estimate of 227, 000 excess deaths among young children from August 1991 through March 1998 " from all causes including sanctions.

Other estimates have put the number at 170, 000 children.

UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy said thatif the substantial reduction in child mortality throughout Iraq during the 1980s had continued through the 1990s, there would have been half a million fewer deaths of children under-five in the country as a whole during the eight year period 1991 to 1998.

As a partial explanation, she pointed to a March statement of the Security Council Panel on Humanitarian Issues which states: " Even if not all suffering in Iraq can be imputed to external factors, especially sanctions, the Iraqi people would not be undergoing such deprivations in the absence of the prolonged measures imposed by the Security Council and the effects of war.