July 20, 2006

Meanwhile, in Iraq

Filed under: Middle East

Crossposted from European Tribune.

By a standard social science definition, ‘civil war’ refers to hostilities between organized groups within a country, whereby at least one side tries to overtake or sway the government, and causing at least 1,000 dead with at least 100 on each side. Now consider Iraq. June brought this merry news:

According to statistics by Iraq’s morgues institute, 6,002 corpses were found in the past five months: 1,068 in January, 1,110 in February, 1,294 in March, 1,155 in April and 1,375 in May.

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Morgues institute officials said that since the institute was established in 1927, it had never received such a huge number of corpses as currently, with the daily average now 35 to 50 per day.

But that was just part of the total. And things have since deteriorated badly, says the UN:

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.

In the US President’s model democracy, June alone claimed more lives than 9/11. I’m afraid this is it. Congratulations, pro-war scum.

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