login
Become a member
Quick Registration
Full Registration Benefits -
Free Homepages for Doctors
Free Homepages for Hospitals
Free Homepages for Medical Conference
Free Homepages for NGO's
Personal Health Record Creation
Access to all Medical Slides
Access to all Jobs & Products Sale
More Than 85,000 Iraqis Killed In 2004-08
The number is based on death certificates issued by the Ministry of Health and included 15,000 unidentified bodies, but does not include foreigners or insurgents.
Also the report of the Ministry of Human Rights does not go into casualties in the first months of the war after the 2003 US-led invasion as there was no functioning Iraqi government at that time to keep track.
Among the deaths were 1,279 children, 2,334 women, 263 university professors, 21 judges, 95 lawyers and 269 journalists.
The data covers only violent deaths, such as people killed in shootings, bombings, mortar attacks and beheadings.
It does not include indirect factors such as damage to infrastructure, health care and stress that contributed to more deaths.
About 148,000 people were injured during the same period.
The ministrys report came out late Tuesday as part of a larger study on human rights in the country. It described the years that followed the invasion, which toppled Saddam Husseins regime, as extremely violent.
Through the terrorist attacks like explosions, assassinations, kidnappings and forced displacements, the outlawed groups have created these terrible figures, it said.
Violence in Iraq has declined dramatically since the height of the fighting but almost every Iraqi family has a story of relatives killed, maimed or missing. One Baghdad resident, Ali Khalil, 27, from the Sadr City neighborhood whose father was shot in late 2006 by gunmen said he was not surprised by the governments figures.
|
|
|
 Comment & Contribute
|
Medwonders Health Network
- Health News Index
- News Quick Links
| News Categories: |
| » | Vivek Oberoi Says There is No Smoking on His Sets |
| » | Gasoigne Swaps Booze for Botox |
| » | Michelle Obama: Name of Olive Tree in Italy |
| » | Beyonce: Most Beautiful Women in the World |
| » | Robin Gibb Recovers from Coma Wakes Up to Cancer |
| More Celebrity News | |
|
