Iraq better off without Saddam...
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Don't tell the 6,000 bodies.
Iraq's main morgue had never received that huge number of corpses on a daily basis - not since modern Iraq was established in 1920s.Hey, we never promised Iraq stability - did we?
According to statistics by Iraq's morgues institute, 6,002 corpses were found in the past five months: 1,068 in January, 1,110 in February, 1,294 in March, 1,155 in April and 1,375 in May.
Most of the corpses had gunshot wounds, while others showed marks of burns or electrocution.
Morgues institute officials said that since the institute was established in 1927, it had never received such a huge number of corpses as currently, with the daily average now 35 to 50 per day.
Before the US-led coalition invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the institute used to receive only seven to 10 corpses per day.
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