Long after most U.S. troops have left Iraq, civilians are dying in ‘obscene’ numbers
It’s a place where the daily grind—the office commute, a quick trip to the neighborhood market—could end in death, abduction or torture. Civilians in Iraq confront face “staggering” violence on a daily basis, according to a U.N. report released on Tuesday, which recorded the killing of 18,802 people and almost twice that many wounded between the […]Nabih Bulos writes for the Los Angeles Times:
It’s a place where the daily grind—the office commute, a quick trip to the neighborhood market—could end in death, abduction or torture. Civilians in Iraq confront face “staggering” violence on a daily basis, according to a U.N. report released on Tuesday, which recorded the killing of 18,802 people and almost twice that many wounded between the beginning of 2014 and the end of October 2015. The period covers the government's battle with the Islamic State extremist group.
Long after the end of major U.S. combat operations in Iraq, the country continues to be torn by sectarian violence that rarely rises to the level of daily headlines but has taken what Jan Kubis, the special representative of the U.N. in the country, called an “obscene toll on Iraqi civilians and their communities.”
