The UN special envoy for Iraq, Martin Kobler, told the UN Security Council that terrorist attacks and sectarian violence in Iraq killed a total of 613 civilians in the first three months of 2012.
“This is slightly less than civilian casualties last year,” Kobler noted. “However, every man, woman, and child dying in terrorist attacks in the streets, markets, or mosques of Iraq is one casualty too many.”
Kobler said political instability and human rights violations had resulted in heightened sectarian tensions, which led to violent attacks on civilians. This is probably a reference to the regime of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who has been consolidating dictatorial power and marginalizing his political rivals through force and coercion.
According to Ayad Allawi, the secular Shi’ite leader of the opposition Iraqiya bloc in parliament, Maliki’s security forces have detained and brutally tortured more than 1,000 political opponents in secret prisons and denied them access to legal counsel. Press freedoms have also been put in jeopardy.
The Obama administration has been enthusiastically supportive of this, sending about $2 billion in annual aid and tens of billions in military assistance in 2011. While this keeps the halls of power in Washington and the oil corporations happy, it seems to be leading to violence and hundreds of additional civilian deaths each month.
Over a million people killed and displaced, the scar of US and NATO war still visible in Falujah, US and EU still helping these terrorists groups in Syria and North Africa, over a million babies deliberately was killed by UN sanctions against people of Iraq, UN program Oil for food was nothing but an open thievery by the UN high ranking staffs and US knowing about it at all time, the Iraq war was a personal matter by Bush Family rather then the freedom of Iraqi peoples and ETC.
All that in comparison is nothing to present time killed civilians, the biggest damage in terms of humanitarian and collateral is done by US and NATO bombardment when these regimes deliberately were bombing the Iraq infrastructure living the Oil ministry in tact.
THe question is this, when UN is going to act and loudly condemn the fact that US and NATO – EU are in business destroying nations after another, that they are after NO Democracy, because there is NO democracy coming out of these militarism regimes democratic parties, when this man is going to have a guts to tell the world that UN is about international laws which therefore these laws needs to equally distributed and applied, when this man is going to say that UN is not about US nor EU militarism regimes and therefore needs to preserve the rights in prosecuting those whom started the Iraq wars, Like Bush and all other involved, Like Tony Blair and all other Europeans government that are involved.., dose this man have the guts or his just another face of Half Moon from UN.