Updated: September 2009 The PRIO Battle Deaths Dataset, 1946-2008, Version 3.0 Documentation of Coding Decisions For use with Uppsala/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset, 1946-2008, Version 4.0 Dataset by: Bethany Lacina Update for 2006-08 by: Bethany Lacina and Gabriel Uriarte1 Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW) International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) This document contains information on the sources used in compiling the PRIO Battle Deaths Dataset, Version 3.0. To obtain that dataset and the accompanying codebook, please visit http://www.prio.no/CSCW/Datasets/Armed-Conflict/Battle-Deaths/. This dataset is designed for use with the Uppsala/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset, Version 4 (Gleditsch et al., 2002). 1 Bethany Lacina is a pre-doctoral fellow at the Center on Democracy Development and Rule of Law, Stanford University and a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO. Gabriel Uriarte is a PhD candidate at the Stanford University Department of Political Science. Table of Contents Acknowledgements and a Note on Citations and Copyrights ................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Definition of Battle Deaths ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Information for Users Interested in War-Related Deaths and Conflict Mortality Statistics ..................................................................................................................................... 7 Afghanistan ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 10 Angola .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 32 Argentina ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 42 Azerbaijan............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 46 Balkans ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 52 Bangladesh ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 63 Bolivia .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 66 Brunei ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 68 Burkina Faso ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 69 Burundi ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 88 Cambodia ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 96 Cameroon ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 105 Central African Republic ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 108 Chad ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 112 China and the Taiwan Strait ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 122 Colombia .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 141 Comoros ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 151 Congo (Brazzaville) .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 153 Costa Rica ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 157 Cote D‘Ivoire ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 158 Cuba ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 160 Cyprus .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 162 Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire) ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 164 Djibouti ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 173 Ecuador ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 176 Egypt .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 178 El Salvador ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 181 Equitorial Guinea .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 185 Eritrea ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 186 Ethiopia................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................