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Iraq's Ministry of Health Underreporting Death from Political Violence

2007-01-17

At least 17 people died and 33 were wounded when a suicide car bomb struck a market in the Shi’te area of Sadr City in Iraq today. There were demonstrations in Baghdad today as people mourned the deaths of more than seventy people killed in an attack at a university on Tuesday. Such attacks suddenly seem to be receiving greater international attention since the U.N. announced yesterday it had concluded more than 35,000 Iraqis had been killed in 2006 in situations directly linked to political violence. For Iraqis, such an announcement, despite official numbers from the Ministry of Health that were much lower, came as no surprise. Hiba Dawood and David Enders report.

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