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Five years of carnage and despair in Iraq
* Published on 17/03/2008
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No-one knows exactly how many people have been killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003. According to the largest survey, carried out jointly by the World Health Organisation and the Iraqi Government and published last January, more than 150,000 people had been killed by June 2006. The UN reported that almost 35,000 people were killed in 2006, the latest year for which figures are available.
The continuing problem of insecurity has hampered efforts to restore order, but even when the Iraqi authorities have been in a position to uphold human rights, they have largely failed to do so. Trials are routinely unfair with convictions on evidence allegedly obtained under torture, and hundreds of people have been sentenced to death.
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Five years of carnage and despair in Iraq, News, Amnesty International Australia
Over 60,000 Iraqis are held in detention by the US-led Multi-National Force and Iraqi authorities. Most are detained without charge or trial and many have been subjected to torture or other ill-treatment. Women have experienced gender-based violence, such as physical attacks, sexual assaults and killings.
03-19-2008
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