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Their minibus was attacked in Zafaraniyah
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Maryam
Indexed under: Baghdad, Baghdad (Governorate)

Posted on April 28th, 2007 under Iraq, War Crimes. Tags: Baghdad, Baghdad (Governorate). Comments: 3

Iraq’s refugee crisis — ANNA HUSARSKA*
Among the many humanitarian disasters produced by the civil war now raging in Iraq is one that is almost invisible.
Only rarely do scenes of massive displacement of the civilian population make it onto our television screens, because, unlike bombs and suicide attacks, displacement does not generate the blood, fire or screams […]

Posted on April 28th, 2007 under Human Rights, Iraq, Politics and Security. Tags: Refugees. Comments: None

No I’m not even slightly surprised. There’s a comforting myth that the British occupiers in Irak behave better than the Americans. They don’t. It’s a colonial war, an outright asset grab in which to it’s shame Britain joined eagerly. Colonial wars are always dirty wars. Always.
markfromireland
Diary of a squaddie: Sunburn, sore feet and three more […]

Posted on April 28th, 2007 under Human Rights, Iraq, War Crimes. Tags: Basrah. Comments: 2

Eight checkpoints have been set up on the the borders with Syria and Turkey. The checkpoints are spaced along the border from Beshabour  near the Syrian border in the west to Zakho near the Turkish border to the far north. — Readers will recall that two weeks ago, Turkish authorities extradited 737 Iraqis to the Kurdish security […]

Posted on April 27th, 2007 under Iraq, Middle East. Tags: Al Anbar (Governorate), Aswat Al Iraq - News, Bombings, Dahuk (Dohuk) (Governorate), Disputed Areas, Diyala, Fallujah, Hit, IED, Kirkuk, Kirkuk (At-Ta'mim) Governorate, Maysan (Governorate), Mosul, Ninawa (Governorate), Turkey. Comments: None

BAGHDAD, 26 April 2007 (IRIN) - While the Iraqi government has dismissed a recent UN human rights report exposing the failures of the US-backed Baghdad security plan, local analysts agree with its findings and say authorities should adopt immediate measures to protect the population.
“It [the government] should react immediately or quit,” said Mohammed Nasser […]

Posted on April 26th, 2007 under Children, Features, Human Rights, Iraq, Politics and Security, Women and Children. Tags: Children, IRIN, Rape, Refugees, Women and Children. Comments: None

IPI includes in its “Death Watch” journalists and media staff who were deliberately targeted because of their profession - either because of their investigative reporting or simply because they were journalists. IPI also includes journalists who were caught in the crossfire while covering dangerous assignments.
22 Journalists killed so far in 2007
100 Journalists killed in […]

Posted on April 25th, 2007 under Human Rights, Iraq. Tags: Journalists Attacked. Comments: None

Back in July July 02, 2006 markfromireland in one of several articles of his observationswrote this:
This child was one of two rushed into Yarmouk hospital in Baghdad by the policeman seen helping attend to him. The children were playing on the street when someone threw a grenade at a street cleaner. Street cleaners are often injured […]

Posted on April 25th, 2007 under Features, Health, Iraq. Tags: Baghdad, IRIN. Comments: None

One person was killed and seven others injured in this morning’s mortar attack on Abu Dasheer, (south Baghdad.) The deceased was a schoolboy on his way in to his school.
Key to the photos:

A teacher shows one of the dead boy’s schoolbooks with his blood on it.

Many Iraki schools have shared desks. In the second photograph […]

Posted on April 25th, 2007 under Children, Women and Children. Tags: Baghdad, Children, Scenes From An Iraki Childhood, Women and Children. Comments: None

This is by no means the first time we’ve highlighted this issue. See for example Another Great Leap Forward which I posted on April 24, 2006. As I said back then:
I don’t know why everybody is acting so surprised and shocked at these latest revelations. It’s not as if this hasn’t happened before or if we’re […]

Posted on April 24th, 2007 under Human Rights, Iraq. Tags: Follow Up. Comments: 1