this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters
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cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, My Left Wing, and TexasKos.
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submitted today from YearlyKos
Some of the dead lie in the morgue of the hospital in the town of Kalar, after gunmen killed 21 people including many high school students and wounded one on Sunday after dragging passengers off buses in the town of Ain Laila, inbetween Qara Tappah and Baqouba, in Iraq Sunday, June 4, 2006. Four Sunni Arabs on board were spared and the dead were all either Shiites or Kurds. (AP Photo)
Death comes to Iraq now in many new and terrible forms. Though there is outrage among many Iraqis about the alleged massacre in Haditha last November, the violence on Iraq’s streets is so unrelentingly horrific that even the worst atrocities have lost their power to shock. Few Iraqis even know how many people have died by the bullets and bombs. Definitive statistics are impossible to find in a country where the most violent provinces are out of bounds for journalists and human-rights workers, and where the state infrastructure–hospitals, morgues, police stations–is not up to the task of caring for the living, never mind counting the dead.
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