Iraqis dying in record numbers, fleeing: U.N.
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A country in chaos, a terrorized population under siege in neighborhoods polarized on sectarian lines or on the move in their hundreds of thousands to escape worsening violence. That was the picture of Iraq depicted in a new U.N. human rights report on Wednesday.
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Nearly 2 million Iraqis have fled their homeland -- what one U.N. official calls a "simmering crisis." In Jordan, Iraq refugees make up more than one-tenth of the population. In the last year, Dr. Nafie Abtan has gone from prominent doctor to refugee. "I feel disaster," he says.
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The U.N. refugee agency on Tuesday called for $261 million this year to help hundreds of thousands of Iraqis driven from their homes by violence.
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The indiscriminate killing of civilians by death squads and insurgents in Iraq reaches new levels, the UN says.
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More than 2,000 Iraqis in the northern part of the country have contracted cholera, U.N. officials said Wednesday, citing local authorities.
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Tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed in violence since the US-led invasion last year, American public health experts have calculated in a report that estimates there were 100,000 &quot;excess deaths&quot; in 18 months.
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The level of violence in Iraq is "much worse" than that of Lebanon's civil war, outgoing U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in an interview aired Monday.
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A quarter of a million Iraqis have fled   their homes and registered as refugees in the past seven   months, data released on Thursday showed, amid an upsurge in   violence that has accompanied the Ramadan holy month.
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About 151,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in the three years following the U.S.-led invasion of their country, according to World Health Organization (WHO) research published on Wednesday.
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The U.S.-led war in Iraq has not made the world any safer, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said in a British television interview aired on Sunday.
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The United Nations health agency said Friday that the death toll in refugee camps in the Darfur region of Sudan had reached 70,000, and that people would continue dying
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The number of Iraqi civilians meeting violent deaths rose to a new high in October, according to the UN.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said   on Monday Iraq was in grave danger of descending into civil   war, as bombs killed over 30 people at a police recruitment   center in central Iraq and in a market in the north.
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The number of civilians slain in Iraq reached an unprecedented level in July and August, which saw 6,599 violent deaths, the United Nations said Wednesday.
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Around 100,000 Iraqis have been killed in violence since the US-led coalition forces invaded the country in March 2003, said a report published Friday in British medicine journal The Lancet.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that countries involved in the Iraq war have a "moral obligation to do more" to accommodate the growing number of Iraqis fleeing their homeland.
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The killing in Iraq is now worse than civil war, outgoing UN chief Kofi Annan says in a BBC interview.