UN warns of “civil war” in Iraq
UN warns of “civil war” in Iraq
Published 11/07/2013 08:57 AM
BAGHDAD – AFP
warned a senior official in the mission, “the United Nations” in Iraq from a bloody civil war, arguing that the “crisis of Syria and factors other regional casts a dark shadow over developments in Iraq.”
said an official file of human rights in the mission Francisco Mota said that “Iraq Pat is at a crossroads, “adding:” I do not say that we are in a civil war now, but the numbers (of victims) very bad. ”
Iraq has been a surge in the pace of the ongoing violence since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003, where he was killed, according to UN figures more than 2,500 people in the last three months, including 761 in June.
And killed more than 190 people in attacks in the country since the beginning of July the current, according to the outcome prepared by AFP based on security and medical sources.
and Ray Mota said political crises successive “and myopia in some policies, and external influences coming from the surrounding area, and Syria ( …) contribute to the payment towards instability. ”
and warned that “sectarian divisions deepened and show the country in a way more dangerous than those they were in 2007.”
Iraq has seen between 2006 and 2008, a civil war, sectarian between Sunnis and Shiites killed thousands.
Since mid-2008, began the preparation of the victims of violence daily decline, but it returned to rise with the U.S. withdrawal end of the year 2011, to reach numbers before mid-2008 in the last three months.
and Ray Mota that Iraq “has not reached the stage of civil war after., but if it continues violence, and continued killing of civilians, men, women, and innocent children, then it can slip somehow can not return it. ”
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