Hell on Earth for Iraqis: 19,000 civilians killed in less than two years — roughly 28 per day
▻http://www.salon.com/2016/01/22/hell_on_earth_for_iraqis_19000_civilians_killed_in_less_than_two_years_roughl
A new United Nations report paints a hellish picture of the violence that has overtaken Iraq in the wake of the U.S. war that destabilized the country.
At least 18,802 civilians were killed and 36,245 wounded in the country in the 22 months between Jan. 1, 2014, and Oct. 31, 2015, according to the Report on the Protection of Civilians in the Armed Conflict in Iraq.
Another 3,206,736 Iraqis were internally displaced, including more than 1 million school-age children, in the 21 months from January 2014 to September 2015.
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In the Iraq War, from March 2003 to December 2011, more than 1 million people were killed — “a conservative estimate,” according to a study by the Nobel Prize-winning organization the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.