2010年11月19日金曜日

The 'roles' of the conflict in Iraq sectarian strife The Shia-Sunni war caused the most civilian deaths

Los 'papeles' del conflicto iraquí LA CONTIENDA SECTARIA

La guerra de chiíes y suníes causó la mayoría de las muertes civiles

J. M. M. - Madrid - 24/10/2010
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/guerra/chiies/sunies/causo/mayoria/muertes/civiles/elpepuint/20101024elpepiint_3/Tes

The 'roles' of the conflict in Iraq sectarian strife The Shia-Sunni war caused the most civilian deaths
J. M. M. - Madrid - 24/10/2010
On February 22, 2006 several men dressed as Iraqi police detonated explosives in the Shiite Al Askari Mosque in Samarra. It was the spark that set off the sectarian war between Sunnis and Shiites who swept Iraq in 2006 and 2007. Most of the 66,081 civilians killed since the war began in March 2003, according to Wikileaks documents, is due to the civil strife. An orgy of murder that reached its maximum height of violence in December 2006: 3,800 civilians were killed this month, plus 1,300 police, soldiers and Iraqi insurgents. Iraq Body Count, the organization dedicated to counting the victims, has made a different calculation: Since March 2003, 150,000 people have perished. Of these, 122,000 (80%) were civilians.
The loyal to Al Qaeda and Shiite militias, some funded and equipped by the Iranian regime for many years-perpetrated murder mobile checkpoints mounted anywhere in areas held by them. Many people died for confessing their membership of the Muslim sects and eventually tortured, mutilated and dumped in landfills ... A particularly bloody fratricidal war for Baghdad and other cities and provinces have a mixed population. Entire districts of the capital eventually purified: Sunni or Shia or were expelled if they were lucky.
Wikileaks does not provide an accurate count of deaths caused by civil war. Only details some attacks or serious incidents. The December 2005 collapse of a bridge in Baghdad, where hundreds of people died after the panic unleashed by some false bomb scares, and 500 deaths in a region bordering Syria, in August 2007 following the explosion of several trucks pump.
When Al Qaeda began to challenge the power of Sunni tribal leaders, those leaders turned against Al Qaeda in Iraq. Sectarian violence was diluted, but remains latent threat of a new outbreak.


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