Monday, 25 October 2010

Wikileaks reveals the death of 70,000 Iraqi civilians since 2003

from http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2010/10/22/internacional/1287762044.html

In WikiLeaks have been leaked important files from Pentágono. This files reveal that between 2003 to 2009 109.032 people died in Irak War, wich 66.081 was civil people. This files belongs to SIGACT: field report,written by soldiers from united state.
Those reports prove that many reports of tortures weren’t investigated by the forces of the United States. This Saturday at 11.00, in a hotel in London, WikiLeaks called the press to show these files.
The Government of United States immediately condemned the website, meanwhile the Government of Irak said “there is no surprise” in the files.
Geoff Morrell, the spokesperson of Pentagon said “the country is more vulnerable now”. And Hillary Clinton condemned the website because the leaks of documents “endanger American lives or their allies.”
Whippings, burnings and beatings
The files show hundreds of whippings, burnings, beatings and other kinds of torture, but they weren’t investigated by the soldiers of United State.
“No coalition soldier was involved in the incident” is the most repetitive phrase in the files.
In the New York Times, the spokesperson of Pentagon said that the politics of the United States “Is, and always has been, in line with international practice and the law”. So, this concerns Iraqis forces to investigate it.