Iraq Has Most Disappeared Persons in World

Iraq’s missing persons and forced disappeared after the invasion in 2003 are definitely the responsibility of those who started this war and are still de facto occupying the country: the USA, UK and by extension their installed puppet Iraqi government. They bear full responsibility for the situation of disappearances, extrajudicial killings and impunity they have created. Their militias and death squads have tortured, brutally assassinated, secretely buried, thrown into the streets and rivers thousands of bodies, many of them unidentifiable.

Rough estimates indicate more than one million persons disappeared in Iraq. According to UN data, the country has the most disappeared in the world. The disappearances stem from different periods since the Iran-Iraq war in 1980. Disappearances still occur at a very regular basis. The most important parties involved now are the Iraqi army, police, various militias, Al-Qu’aida and the American army.'

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