Four-year violence kills 85,000 Iraqis

Iraq: Iraq reported Wednesday that over 85,000 people died during bomb attacks, murders and armed clashed from 2004 to 2008.

The Iraqi Human Rights Ministry spread the new statistics taking the draft of a report over deaths certificates made by the Health Ministry by which 147,195 people were wounded in the same period of time because of the same reasons. However he clarified the death toll and number of unidentified wounded people could be bigger.

The report did not make distinction between civilians and others and possibly did not include details of missing people which are estimated in about 10,000 Iraqis in that period of time where about 15,000 unidentified corpses were also found. Thousands Iraqis died after the US military invasion on March 2003 and many were buried without being identified by their families in the so-called cemetery of non identified bodies, stated the report. According to Iraq Body Count pacifist project at least 102,071 civilians died in that Arab country since 2003 because of violence.

Meanwhile Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari revealed that consultations at UN Security Council are taking place to appoint a special envoy to investigate accusations against Syria for what is called here bloody Wednesday.

During a press conference in this capital Zebari affirmed that intensive diplomatic efforts with the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and other parts took place to investigate the incident that damaged Syria-Iraq relations. Baghdad, Prensa Latina