It is extremely difficult to estimate the number of Vietnamese killed during the Vietnam War. For years, the North Vietnamese, for political reasons, refused to release these numbers. They did not, perhaps, want the immense human cost of the war to tarnish their victory. In 1995, years after the fact, they finally released a report putting the number of Vietnamese combatants killed at 1.1 million and the number of Vietnamese civilians killed at almost 2 million. If these numbers are accurate, that would put the total number of Vietnamese killed or missing during the Vietnam War at approximately 3 million. Another 600,000 combatants were listed as wounded. There are no figures on the number of wounded civilians.