Counting the dead and wounded: data journalism for increased military accountability
by Eline Westra
New technologies have enabled journalists to monitor military actions more closely, with smartphones and the internet now forming powerful "digital eyes" on the ground. And in the international air war against ISIL, these local sources reveal a much greater human cost from airstrikes than the military authorities themselves claim. An insight into the work of journalist-run monitoring group Airwars.
Dutch F-16s and munition at the base in Jordan. The Netherlands carried out about 500 airstrikes in Iraq and later also in Syria, from October 2014 to July 2016 (photo courtesy/source: Archive Dutch MoD/Ministerie van Defensie)
On 8 August…
