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September 17, 2004
It has been a week of numbing figures from Iraq. A surge in violence has taken the lives of more than 250 Iraqis.
This morning 44 people were killed when US warplanes attacked buildings in Fallujah, 13 were killed by a car bomb in central Baghdad. The increased use of air power, and the dependence on tanks in Najaf have led to the devastation of city centers across the country.
It is difficult to quantify and grasp the tremendous violence in Iraq.
Simon Jeffery writing for the Guardian newspaper offers a profile of Iraq Body Count and the latest listing of civilian casualties. The most complete attempt yet to identify some of the estimated 15,000 Iraqi civilians killed since the US-led invasion in March last year was unveiled alongside AFSC's Eyes Wide Open exhibit in Chicago.
3,000 Iraqi dead named
Simon Jeffery, Thursday September 16, 2004
The Guardian
The most complete attempt yet to identify some of the estimated 15,000 Iraqi civilians killed since the US-led invasion in March last year was unveiled in Chicago today.
Iraq Body Count (IBC), a volunteer group of British and US academics and researchers, came up with 3,000 names by combining its database of dead civilians gleaned from media reports with the work of on-the-ground Iraqi researchers.
"Every one of some 15,000 Iraqi civilians killed was a loved human being, whose loss creates heartbreak and bitterness among the bereaved families and communities," said local IBC member Scott Lipscomb.
Each of the names was read out in a ceremony that lasted two hours, and has been inscribed on a 24ft wall in Chicago's Federal Plaza alongside a memorial to the US soldiers who have died in Iraq. The memorial, which travels between American cities, consists of more than 1,000 pairs of combat boots tagged with the name, age, rank and home state of each dead US soldier.
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