UN marks soaring Iraq death toll
Legal World
[##_1L|1300395851.jpg|width="130" height="82" alt=""|_##]U.N. officials in Baghdad say more than 34,000 Iraqis perished in violent incidents last year, far more than the government had reported. U.N. experts say it is urgent to strengthen the police, courts, and other institutions to stem the bloodshed. VOA's Jim Randle reports from Baghdad.
The chief of the U.N. Human Rights Office in Iraq, Gianni Magazzeni, says U.N. staffers gathered the information from hospitals and the Ministry of Health. The statistics are grim.
"During 2006, a total of 34,452 civilians have been violently killed and 36,685 wounded," he said.
The report says an average of almost 100 people a day die in Iraq's violence.
These figures are much higher than those from Iraq's government, and government officials have called previous U.N. reports "exaggerated."
This report says the security services have been infiltrated by sectarian militia members and are ineffective.
Magazzeni says the appalling toll will not stop until Iraqis have reason to have faith in their police, courts and other institutions of justice.
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