[news] Iraq: Thousands Killed by Government Death Squads

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Iraq: Thousands Killed by Government Death Squads

Doug Lorimer - Green Left Weekly, March 15, 2006 

Faik Bakir, the director of the Baghdad morgue, has fled Iraq in fear of his life after reporting that more than 7000 people have been killed by Iraqi interior ministry death squads in recent months, John Pace, the outgoing head of the UN human rights office in Iraq, told the March 2 British Guardian. 

Pace said the Baghdad morgue has been receiving 700 or more bodies a month. The figures peaked at 1100 last July — many showing signs of torture.

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