U.N. report describes an “ever-deepening humanitarian crisis” in Iraq, with thousands of people driven from their homes each month
October 12, 2007 8:45 am IraqU.N. Report on Iraq Details An ‘Ever-Deepening’ Crisis - washingtonpost.com, October 12, 2007
BAGHDAD, Oct. 11 — A U.N. report issued Thursday outlined an “ever-deepening humanitarian crisis” in Iraq, with thousands of people driven from their homes each month, ongoing indiscriminate killings and “routine torture” in Iraqi prisons.
Also Thursday, a U.S. airstrike in Iraq killed 15 civilians — nine women and six children — and 19 suspected insurgents, the military said. “We regret that civilians are hurt or killed while Coalition forces search to rid Iraq of terrorism,” Maj. Brad Leighton, a U.S. military spokesman, said in a statement….
The report also highlighted the estimated 2.2 million Iraqis now living as refugees outside Iraq, about half of them in neighboring Syria.