Iraq violence kills 2,500, displaces 85,000 in two months: UN

[sabra]

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=124894

Iraq violence kills 2,500, displaces 85,000 in two months: UN


BAGHDAD - Acts of violence have killed nearly 2,500 people and forced more than 85,000 to flee their homes in Iraq, the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq said Tuesday in a March-April report on the human rights situation.

The fatality count was comprised by death certificates issued by the Baghdad morgue, the report said.

"The Medico-Legal Institute in Baghdad issued 1,294 death certificates in March and 1,155 in April," the majority of which had been deaths caused by gunshot wounds, it said.

"As a result of the pervasive violence, Iraqis continue to leave their areas of residence, either voluntarily or as a result of violence or threats by insurgents, militias and other armed groups," it said.

[acmavm]

1. That's all that people who spout the 'things are going great'

mantra should have to be told. In a world where everything wasn't all upside down and inside out that would be enough to prove to EVERYONE that that country is in the midst of a civil war.

[uppityperson]

2. hell absolute hell

I guess these aren't the conditions that will dictate an Iraq pullout. I wonder if these numbers have been published in any USA media?

[ramapo]

3. Thank God

that the USA came in to save everybody from Saddam.

[UpInArms]

4. it's a good thing this story in not in the US M$M!

The Ministry of Truth and Happiness would be all over the journalist that had the nerve to publish such a thing! :sarcasm: