Peace Activists count Iraqi civilians dead In Denmark, USA, UK and in all the other countries involved in the war in Iraq, becoming the each and every dead soldier carefully recorded. We get told his name, his age and where he comes from - and about the fallen soldier has relatives. But the government and the military does not detect when the war is costing civilian life. This in turn makes the US-British NGO Iraq Body Count (IBC). Iraq Body Count was established in January 2003 by a group of volunteers from Britain and America, who felt a responsibility to ensure that the human consequences of the military invasion of Iraq was documented. Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Iraq Body Count registered civilian deaths that the military intervention in the country has caused. Every day through reading researchers at the NGO Iraq Body Count Iraqi newspapers for civilian deaths caused by the war in Iraq. Every death recorded in a large database. Database includes both deaths can be attributed to the US-led coalition forces, paramilitaries and rebels. IBCs researchers get their information from the Iraqi media and local journalists who report such as errors bombings of civilians, shootings with civilian victims and other violent acts with civilian casualties. IBC also get its information from primary sources as wounded, other eyewitnesses, relatives and local doctors, rescue workers and police officers. The information is cross-checked with information from hospitals, morgues, NGOs and the authorities. IBCs figures of civilian casualties is not discretionary - but based on the actual data of the dead and wounded. IBC only records civilian non-combatants who have suffered a violent death. >> Read more about Iraq Body Count on their website here One of the volunteers researchers in IBC is Lily Hamourtziadou who was active in the IBC in 2006. - Up to the Iraq war, I went to several demonstrations with hundreds of thousands of others. Yet decided our politicians sending our country and our young men to war. I felt betrayed by the politicians. We knew that the war would cost a lot of innocent civilians. But the politicians did not listen. They had - and have - have no interest in registering the civilian victims in a country far away from Britain, she says to the laborer. She explains: - If we do not document the civilian casualties in Iraq, there is no one else doing it. The Iraqi people are people just like you and me. Therefore, we decided that we - from the war Day 1 - would document all civilian casualties. Today - 13 years after - we still count the dead in Iraq. - Coalition would like to tell you about all the bombs against Islamic State, which hit the mark and manufactures the operation as a success. But it is important that the other side of the bombing also being told - namely about the civilian casualties.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 09:04:24 +0000
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