Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Surviving life in a Baghdad ER - BBC News
... The nature of the injuries brought into the Emergency Room have changed over time, from the rocket injuries and bullet wounds related to the 2003 US-led invasion, through the revenge killings in the aftermath of Saddam Hussein's fall, to the stabbings of petty crime in the increasingly unstable Iraqi capital.
After that came the bombings and the sectarian violence which grew markedly after the attack on a major Shia shrine in February this year.
Most recently he says, bodies have been dumped in front of the hospital by security forces - between 20 and 40 daily - because the city's central morgue is full.
The bodies have "their hands tied, their faces are covered, some have been executed by being shot in the head; some have been beheaded, tortured or disembowelled".
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The doctor speaks of insurgents coming on "special missions" to kidnap Sunni patients in retaliation for sectarian attacks against Shia civilians. ...
... The nature of the injuries brought into the Emergency Room have changed over time, from the rocket injuries and bullet wounds related to the 2003 US-led invasion, through the revenge killings in the aftermath of Saddam Hussein's fall, to the stabbings of petty crime in the increasingly unstable Iraqi capital.
After that came the bombings and the sectarian violence which grew markedly after the attack on a major Shia shrine in February this year.
Most recently he says, bodies have been dumped in front of the hospital by security forces - between 20 and 40 daily - because the city's central morgue is full.
The bodies have "their hands tied, their faces are covered, some have been executed by being shot in the head; some have been beheaded, tortured or disembowelled".
...
The doctor speaks of insurgents coming on "special missions" to kidnap Sunni patients in retaliation for sectarian attacks against Shia civilians. ...
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