6000 Iraqi Civilians Killed In Last Two Months - UN

In a country with barely functioning public institutions, where relatives routinely remove the bodies of victims for burial with little legal formality, any estimates of mortality from the violence are highly approximate. But a surge in sectarian killing in the past few months has been seen in rising trends in those statistics that exist. http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/print/0,1478,3736973a12,00.html

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