How Charming

How is it possible that this
is allowed to happen? I would have thought that as decent human beings
we could at least afford the civilians we kill the dignity of being
COUNTED, but apparently not:

Iraq's Health Ministry has ordered a halt to a count of
civilians killed during the war and told its statistics department not
to release figures compiled so far, the official who oversaw the count
told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
The order was relayed by the ministry's director of planning, Dr. Nazar
Shabandar, but the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority, which
oversees the ministry, also wanted the counting to stop, said Dr.
Nagham Mohsen, the head of the ministry's statistics department. "We
have stopped the collection of this information because our minister
didn't agree with it," she said, adding: "The CPA doesn't want this to
be done." A spokesman for the CPA had no immediate response.

Posted by flow Frazao on December 10, 2003 at 01:18 PM | Permalink