Posted on 01/22/2016 6:21:20 AM PST by marshmallow
"The violence suffered by civilians in Iraq remains staggering," says U.N. report.
NEW YORK - A new United Nations report has tried to count the civilian toll of continuing conflict in Iraq, largely at the hands of Islamic State militants, and the numbers are "staggering."
"Even the obscene casualty figures fail to accurately reflect exactly how terribly civilians are suffering in Iraq," Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said Jan. 19.
"The figures capture those who were killed or maimed by overt violence, but countless others have died from the lack of access to basic food, water or medical care."
He said the report shows the sufferings of Iraqi civilians and "starkly illustrates what Iraqi refugees are attempting to escape when they flee to Europe and other regions."
"This is the horror they face in their homelands."
Between January 2014 and October 2015, at least 18,802 civilians were killed in Iraq. About half of them died in Baghdad province. Another 36,000 were injured.
The deadliest tactic against civilians has been the use of improvised explosive devices, both in vehicles and in the vests of suicide bombers.
Another 3.2 million people were internally displaced in the 21-month time period measured by the report. The displaced include about 1 million school-age children.
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Well...lets give it another thousand years and see what happens...
Paging Barry and Hillary.
The way they treated us Marines. Fck em. Reap what you sow.
Isn’t that UN Group that designated the USA as one of the worst for violations of human rights? How credible can they be?
the next time we go into this region, we better plan to stay... and straighten this stuff out...
turn it all over to israel... that’s the ticket.
buwahahahahahaha
Have they banned islam there yet? If not, too bad.
And not a peep about how this is an Obama caused disaster. Although GWB is not innocent here.
How about, “Thanks, Barack!”
National Catholic REGISTER. Not to be confused with yellow rag, National “catholic” REPORTER. One of these things is NOT like the other.
Obviously we’re going to have to take them all in. /s
And "Thanks, W!"
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