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Headlines : IraqAt least 925 killed in Iraq's Sadr City clashes
The battle against the Mahdi Army has resulted in a massacre, with nearly a thousand casualties being admitted (even boasted of) by the Iraqi government. The true figure will no doubt be higher.
The Maliki government and U.S. forces have been rampaging through Sadr city seeking what the Iraqi PM calls “scavengers” and “criminals” – terms which have been applied to all victims of the assault regardless of their accuracy. Air strikes have been routinely called in as reprisals for attacks by local people on occupation forces, resulting in indiscriminate killing.
All of this amounts to a major crime against humanity.
[Posted By Szamko]Republished from AFP
More than 900 people have been killed in clashes between militiamen and security forces in Baghdad’s Sadr City that broke out last month, a senior Iraqi official told reporters on Wednesday.
“There were 925 martyrs in Sadr City and 2,605 others have been wounded,” in the firefights that began on March 25 and are still continuing, said Tehseen Sheikhly, a spokesman for the government’s Baghdad security plan.
Fierce clashes between US and Iraqi forces and Shiite fighters, mostly from the Mahdi Army militia of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, erupted after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered a crackdown on militiamen in the southern city of Basra.
Posted by Szamko
Just tries to tell the truth.
Five years after “mission accomplished,” sharp rise in Iraqi and US casualties
May 1 marked the fifth anniversary of the infamous “mission accomplished” speech delivered by President George W. Bush aboard a US aircraft carrier. Five years after what Bush proclaimed to be the end of “major combat operations” in Iraq, US casualties have reached a seven-month high, while the Iraqi death toll continues to mount.
In April, 52 US troops were killed in Iraq, the highest number since last September. The bulk of the casualties came in Baghdad, mostly in the crowded Shia slum neighborhoods of Sadr City.
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Smack much of revenge to you?