At least 18,802 civilians have been killed and another 36,245 wounded between January 1, 2014 and October 31, 2015, stated a new report jointly compiled by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
Of the total number of casualties, at least 3,855 civilians were killed and 7,056 wounded between May 1 and October 31 last year the period covered by the report. Baghdad, Anbar and Diyala governorates were the most severely affected with Baghdad accounting for more than half of the deaths recording 6,168 civilian casualties.
"Even the obscene casualty figures fail to accurately reflect exactly how terribly civilians are suffering in Iraq," said the UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein. However, the OHCHR and UNAMI say that these figures may be highly underestimated because of the lack of methods to verify certain incidents, the lack of access to some particularly volatile areas and the fear of reprisals by sources.
Between 800 and 900 child soldiers have been abducted by the Islamic State (IS) from Mosul for military training of which many were murdered when they tried to flee from the frontlines of the Anbar province...
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19/1/16
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‘Staggering’ civilian death toll in Iraq – UN report...
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Of the total number of casualties, at least 3,855 civilians were killed and 7,056 wounded between 1 May and 31 October last year – the period covered by the report. According to the UN, the actual figures could be much higher than those documented, and about half of these deaths took place in Baghdad.
“The violence suffered by civilians in Iraq remains staggering,” the report states. “The so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) continues to commit systematic and widespread violence and abuses of international human rights law and humanitarian law. These acts may, in some instances, amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and possibly genocide.” ......http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=53037#.Vp5hIk8pr2Y