Ledger of Souls
A terminal of the unreproducible
The one nobody built
Figures current to March 2026
"Amid these hearts that burn like coal;
and the flesh that rose like smoke"
— Leonard Cohen, The Captain, 1992
Active Conflicts 7
Confirmed Dead (floor) 2.0M+Upper Estimate3.5M+
Nobel Nominees Trump × 9
"Amid these hearts that burn like coal;
and the flesh that rose like smoke"
| # | Conflict | Confirmed Dead | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07 | Iran — Minab Feb 28, 2026 — ongoing Active War |
1,332 Total Iran dead (to Mar 7) 165 girls aged 7–12, Shajareh Tayyebeh school, Minab. Triple-tapped. |
Al Jazeera live tracker Tasnim News Agency UNESCO |
Principal moved survivors to prayer room after first strike. Second missile found them. Sara Shariatmadar, 6, 2nd grade. Mohanna Zari, 1st grade. 163 names the world did not ask for. |
| 08 | Gaza Oct 7, 2023 — ongoing Ceasefire / Violated |
72,120 MoH floor (Mar 5, 2026) Lancet-verified: 75,200+ by Jan 5, 2025 alone. +34.7% above MoH. |
Gaza MoH Lancet Global Health, Feb 2026 WAFA |
56% women, children, elderly. 3–4% of entire population. 633 killed since Oct 2025 ceasefire. Ceasefire is a word. |
| 06 | Sudan / Darfur Apr 2023 — ongoing Active |
150,000 Floor estimate Upper range: 400,000+. Worst famine in 40 years. |
UNOCHA ACLED |
14 million displaced. Obscured by Gaza. Dying in the dark by design. |
| 09 | Yemen 2015 — ongoing Active |
377,000 Direct + indirect (UN, 2021) Majority: disease, starvation. 21.6M need aid. |
UN OCHA UNICEF |
Saudi bombs. US logistics. Yemeni children. Nobel geography: outside the frame. |
| 02 | Syria 2011 — ongoing Active |
500,000+ Estimated Half the country displaced. |
UNOCHA Syrian Observatory |
13 years. The world moved on. The Syrians did not. |
| 05 | Somalia Ongoing Active |
— Uncounted US strikes continue under executive sanction. |
ACLED Airwaves |
Slowly watering the soil with blood. No ticker. No count. |
| 10 | Pakistan — Afghanistan 2026 — ongoing New / Open War |
Unknown 46 locations struck Taliban suppressing all media coverage. |
Reuters Al Jazeera |
The darkness is the count. |
| 01 | Iraq 2003 — 2011 Done and Dusted |
300,000 Floor — ceiling: 600,000+ Lancet study suppressed. Dismissed. True. |
Lancet, 2006 Iraq Body Count |
WMD: 0 found. Dead: uncountable. Coalition of the willing. |
| 04 | Libya 2011 — ongoing instability Fragmented |
30,000+ Civil war estimate |
UNOCHA | Liberated. Left to rot. Humanitarian intervention: served. |
| 03 | Lebanon 2025 Degraded |
123+ Latest Israeli strikes (Mar 2026) |
Lebanon Health Ministry Al Jazeera |
Hezbollah degraded. Civilians: collateral. At this rate: a month of Sundays. Nobel unimpressed. |
METHODOLOGY: All figures represent confirmed floor estimates from primary sources — Ministry of Health reports, UN agencies (UNOCHA, UNICEF), peer-reviewed studies (Lancet Global Health), and wire services. Where ranges exist, the conservative floor is displayed. Indirect deaths (disease, starvation, displacement) are noted separately where available. The true toll in every conflict exceeds the figure shown. The absence of a count is not the absence of dead.
SOURCES: Gaza MoH · Lancet Global Health (Feb 2026) · ACLED · UNOCHA ReliefWeb · Al Jazeera live tracker · Tasnim News Agency · Wikipedia conflict pages · WAFA · NPR · Democracy Now · Drop Site News