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"Mr Pace, a Maltese-Australian who has now retired from his UN post to his home in Sydney, says the constant violence and utter lack of security in Iraq are creating a vicious circle in which ordinary citizens are turning to extremist sectarian groups for protection. Fear of anybody in official uniform inevitably strengthens the militias and the insurgents. In Sunni areas people will look to their own defences, and not to the regular army and police."
Patrick Cockburn and Andrew Buncombe in the Independent cite information from outgoing UN human rights chief on the violence in Iraq that is making life, let alone democracy, extremely difficult. A thousand bodies each month turn up in the Baghdad morgue with evidence of torture, like drill bit holes, and/or execution by bullet. The majority of victims are Sunni. Found on Angry Arab.
SIRATYST (Stuff I Read and Thought You Should Too) -- “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” (Calgacus, as quoted by Tacitus, Agricola 30-31)"
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