Sectarian Violence in Baghdad Stalks Its Victims Even at the Morgues

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Relentless Sectarian Violence in Baghdad Stalks Its Victims Even at the Morgues
By KIRK SEMPLE
Published: July 30, 2006

BAGHDAD, July 29 — As violence in the Iraqi capital continues to rise, the task of tracking down missing people here has become a grim ordeal. Iraq’s anemic investigative agencies have been ill-equipped to keep up with soaring crime, so for families seeking information, the morgues have often provided the only certainty.

Now, even the morgues have become a source of danger, at least for Sunni Arabs. In recent months, Shiite militias have been staking out Baghdad’s central morgue in particular, and the authorities have received dozens of reports of kidnappings and killings of Sunni Arabs there.

Many Sunnis now refuse to go there to look for missing family members and are forced to take extraordinary measures to recover a relative’s body, including sending Shiite friends in their stead.

“We have to fight just to get our bodies from the morgue,” said Omar al-Jubouri, the human rights director of the Iraqi Islamic Party, a Sunni political group.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/world/middleeast/30morgue.html

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1. that's SO yesterday!

all is well in Baghdad today. Wolf just said so.

:sarcasm: