World News 25,000 civilian deaths in Iraq

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LONDON (AP) - British research group Iraq Body Count said July 19 that about 25,000 civilians died in violence in Iraq in the two years after the start of the U.S.-led invasion.

The results, gathered from media reports, could not be independently confirmed. U.S. and coalition authorities say they have not kept a count of such deaths and Iraqi accounting has been haphazard.

The report found:

＊U.S.-led coalition forces were responsible for 37.3 percent of the total. About three-quarters of those fatalities occurred during the invasion phase up to May 1, 2003.

＊"Predominantly criminal killings" linked to the huge crime wave that struck Iraq after the collapse of Saddam Hussein's government accounted for 35.6 percent.

＊Insurgency, or anti-occupation forces, were responsible for 9.5 percent.

＊Deaths caused by suicide bombs and other attacks that lacked a clearly identifiable military objective amounted to 11 percent. Iraq Body Count said there would likely be some overlap between this category and the "anti-occupation forces" one.

＊Civilian deaths blamed on what the Iraqi Ministry of Health described as "military actions" and "terrorist attacks" amounted to 3.8 percent.

一般市民の死者数2万5,000人に

イギリスの調査団は19日、戦争が始まってからこの2年間にイラクで2万5,000人の一般市民が死亡したとする報告書を発表した。

Shukan ST: July 29, 2005

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