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Iraq: 14,000 dead civilians just this year
    #5880101 - 07/20/06 01:30 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Things going as well as ever in Iraq I see...didn't George and Donny Rumsfield do well  :rolleyes:

100 Iraqis being killed each day, says UN
By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad

Published: 20 July 2006
The number of Iraqi civilians being murdered or killed in the current fighting has been revealed for the first time by the United Nations. It is far higher than previous estimates.

Some 3,149 people were killed in June alone, or more than 100 a day, and the figure is likely to rise higher this month because of tit-for-tat massacres by Sunni and Shia Muslims. Some 120 Shias were killed in two attacks earlier in the week and gunmen yesterday kidnapped 20 employees of a government agency in Baghdad looking after Sunni mosques and shrines.

The death toll has risen every month this year and totalled 5,818 in May and June. This far exceeds the number given by the Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count, a web site that compiles casualty figures based on published accounts, which said that 840 civilians died in June. Overall 14,000 civilians were killed in the first half of the year says the UN.

Ever since the invasion in 2003 the US military and later US-supported Iraqi governments have sought to conceal the number of Iraqi civilians being killed. The US Army for long denied that it counted the number of civilians killed by its soldiers. The Iraqi Ministry of Health also refused to reveal to the UN the civilian casualty figures.

Now, for the first time, the health ministry in Baghdad has told the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, which publishes a bimonthly report on human rights, the exact death toll recorded by hospitals around the country. The central morgue in Baghdad provides figures for unidentified bodies, of which there were 1,595 in June. In the first six months of the year the number of Iraqi civilians dying violently rose by 77 per cent.

The UN report paints a picture of Iraqi society dissolving under the stress of cumulative violence.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1187007.ece

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Re: Iraq: 14,000 dead civilians just this year [Re: Alex213]
    #5880102 - 07/20/06 01:31 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Denial and delusion in the face of mass slaughter
Published: 20 July 2006
While the attention of the world is, understandably, focused on events in Lebanon, we should not forget that the numbers killed in that particular Middle Eastern crisis are negligible when compared with the carnage taking place only a few hundred miles away in Iraq. As we report today, the death toll there is reaching truly nightmarish proportions. There were 5,818 violent deaths in May and June alone. A massacre is taking place almost every day. And there is no sign that the killing is about to end.

It is now beyond doubt that a state of civil war exists in the central regions of the country. Sectarian "cleansing" is advanced, as Shia and Sunni neighbourhoods and towns band together for protection, and minorities are driven out by the activities of death squads. It is small wonder that this murderous atmosphere has prompted almost a million Iraqis to flee the country in the past three years.

http://comment.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/article1186978.ece

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Re: Iraq: 14,000 dead civilians just this year [Re: Alex213]
    #5880119 - 07/20/06 01:41 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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Alex213 said:

By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad





I couldn't resist :smile:


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Re: Iraq: 14,000 dead civilians just this year [Re: Alex213]
    #5880128 - 07/20/06 01:47 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

With two totals, it's not surprising that you choose the UN figure, which was also not surprisingly the highest, by a factor of a few hundres


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Re: Iraq: 14,000 dead civilians just this year [Re: xDuckYouSuckerx]
    #5880191 - 07/20/06 02:19 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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With two totals, it's not surprising that you choose the UN figure, which was also not surprisingly the highest, by a factor of a few hundres




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Now, for the first time, the health ministry in Baghdad has told the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, which publishes a bimonthly report on human rights, the exact death toll recorded by hospitals around the country. The central morgue in Baghdad provides figures for unidentified bodies, of which there were 1,595 in June. In the first six months of the year the number of Iraqi civilians dying violently rose by 77 per cent.




He chose the number from the Health Ministry in Baghdad. I would think if anyone knows roughly how many Iraqi's died in Iraq, it would probably be the other Iraqi's who work in the hospitals and Morgues.


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Re: Iraq: 14,000 dead civilians just this year [Re: Madtowntripper]
    #5880256 - 07/20/06 02:59 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

COCKBURN! hahaha


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Re: Iraq: 14,000 dead civilians just this year [Re: xDuckYouSuckerx]
    #5880258 - 07/20/06 03:00 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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COCKBURN! hahaha




Laughing at your own jokes isn't really the thing to do duck.

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Re: Iraq: 14,000 dead civilians just this year [Re: Alex213]
    #5880268 - 07/20/06 03:08 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

It's not my joke, it's the guys name. Every time I read it I laugh. I'm also fairly drunk


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