The Armenian Genocide – 97 Years On - by Robert Kazandjian -
The forgotten holocaust that inspired Hitler.
Malcolm X said ‘If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, that’s not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that’s not progress. The progress comes from healing the wound that the blow made. They haven’t even begun to pull the knife out. They won’t even admit the knife is there.’
The catastrophic wound inflicted upon our collective identity by the Armenian Genocide cannot begin to heal. The blade of the Ottoman Gendarme’s bayonet is lodged deep in our hearts. There can be no progress without recognition.
Ataturk built his modern Turkish state on the myth of resistance against the imperial powers and their influence. The reality is his immediate predecessors had expunged all minority peoples from the land. From Ataturk, to Erdogan, successive Turkish governments have followed a policy of fierce denial, perpetuating historical lies through propaganda and repression.
Self-declared beacons of democracy, Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States, still fail to officially recognise the Armenian Genocide. Turkey has long been of great strategic importance to these nations, during the cold-war era as NATO defender on the Soviet border, today as a proxy in the crusade to liberate specific Middle Eastern states. It is not surprising that the Armenian Diaspora in Syria, directly descended from genocide survivors left to languish in desert deportation camps, shudders at the increasing prospect of a Turkish-led military intervention.
Any move towards international recognition prompts a predictably angry response from Ankara.
French parliament submitted legislation that would make it a crime to deny any genocide officially recognised by the state. France only recognises the Jewish Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide. The legislation prompted a furious response from Prime Minister Erdogan. Turkey threatened retaliatory measures against its NATO ally.
In the United States, an Armenian Genocide resolution was proposed by congress to President Clinton. The resolution sought to ensure that recognition of the genocide became constitutional, a simple bill with no legal ramifications. Ankara warned the United States that passing the resolution would have disastrous consequences, Turkish airbases would be closed to American planes and weapons contracts would be cancelled. The resolution was quashed and a super-power had been censored by a client state.
Any attempt to recognise the Armenian Genocide within Turkey is punishable by law and can have tragic consequences. Under Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code it is illegal to insult Turkey, Turkish ethnicity and Turkish government institutions. Article 301 is an overt suppression of free speech…Read the rest of the article HERE
Published in The Comment Factory - 24th April 2012
Robert Kazandjian is a writer and freelance journalist published by The Independent, Comment Factory and New Writing. Twitter: @RKazandjian
His website HERE
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“I have never really understood exactly what a “liberal” is, though, since i have heard “liberals” express every conceivable opinion on every conceivable subject. As far as i can tell, you have the extreme right, who are fascist, racist capitalist dogs like Ronald Reagan, who come right out and let you know where they’re coming from. And on the opposite end, you have the left, who are supposed to be committed to justice, equality, and human rights. And somewhere between those two points is the liberal. As far as i’m concerned, “liberal” is the most meaningless word in the dictionary. History has shown me that as long as some white middle-class people can live high on the hog, take vacations to Europe, send their children to private schools, and reap the benefits of their white skin privileges, then they are “liberals.” But when times get hard and money gets tight, they pull off that liberal mask and you think you’re talking to Adolf Hitler. They feel sorry for the so-called underprivileged just as long as they can maintain their own privileges.” — Assata Shakur (via capitalism-kills)
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not just the minutiae: Spike Lee's Dolly Shots -
This video essay by Richard Cruz collects Spike Lee’s loopy, free-floating dolly shots into a music video. In the process, it makes them less jarring than they were when they first appeared in Lee’s films. You know what I’m talking about: a shot where a major character is still, or…
![If Labels are for Clothes then Boxes are just for Gifts ~ Najma Hush
I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. Roger EbertAny deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice. Joey SkaggsBecause it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language. Christopher Lasch
Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. Coretta Scott KingPeople must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us. Jose SerranoBigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society. Judith LightEverybody’s scared for their ass. There aren’t too many people ready to die for racism. They’ll kill for racism but they won’t die for racism. Florynce R. KennedyDemocratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority. Maggie GallagherI believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation. Coretta Scott KingI try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry. Loretta SanchezI was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn’t pay the rent. Philip ZimbardoIf we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon. George AikenNow spot who is prejudiced?“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”Ann Coulter“It is the black heart of Islam, not the black face, to which millions object.” Will Cummins“It [Islam] is a menace to all we in the West hold dear, and the time when anyone can pretend otherwise is almost at an end.” Nick Griffin
“These elements have a negative effect on all of public security. They are strengthened demographically both by natural reproduction and by immigration, which reinforces their stubborn ethnic segregation, their domineering nature. This is the world of Islam in all its aberrations.”Jean-Marie Le Pen“Most of the Muslims reaching the U.S. refuse to learn our language and take over our neighborhoods with their codes of dress and education. Then, they pressure the residents, as they did in Dearborn, Michigan, to leave by razing the churches and putting mosques in their places, displacing the local delis with Middle Eastern food. The Arabic signs go up and another neighborhood bites the dust. Now, everyone can be serenaded five times a day with loudspeakers calling them to prayer. Fast learners, they are now armed with the knowledge of how to beat us with bullets and ballots.”Arlene Peck
This piechart is from the article ‘All Terrorists are Muslims…except the 94% who are not’](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3r9f8VQgY1rse1s9o1_500.jpg)
If Labels are for Clothes then Boxes are just for Gifts ~ Najma Hush
I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.
Roger Ebert
Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.
Joey Skaggs
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
Christopher Lasch
Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.
Coretta Scott King
People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.
Jose Serrano
Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.
Judith Light
Everybody’s scared for their ass. There aren’t too many people ready to die for racism. They’ll kill for racism but they won’t die for racism.
Florynce R. Kennedy
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
Maggie Gallagher
I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Coretta Scott King
I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry.
Loretta Sanchez
I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn’t pay the rent.
Philip Zimbardo
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.
George Aiken
Now spot who is prejudiced?
“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”
Ann Coulter
“It is the black heart of Islam, not the black face, to which millions object.”
Will Cummins
“It [Islam] is a menace to all we in the West hold dear, and the time when anyone can pretend otherwise is almost at an end.”
Nick Griffin
“These elements have a negative effect on all of public security. They are strengthened demographically both by natural reproduction and by immigration, which reinforces their stubborn ethnic segregation, their domineering nature. This is the world of Islam in all its aberrations.”
Jean-Marie Le Pen
“Most of the Muslims reaching the U.S. refuse to learn our language and take over our neighborhoods with their codes of dress and education. Then, they pressure the residents, as they did in Dearborn, Michigan, to leave by razing the churches and putting mosques in their places, displacing the local delis with Middle Eastern food. The Arabic signs go up and another neighborhood bites the dust. Now, everyone can be serenaded five times a day with loudspeakers calling them to prayer. Fast learners, they are now armed with the knowledge of how to beat us with bullets and ballots.”
Arlene Peck
This piechart is from the article ‘All Terrorists are Muslims…except the 94% who are not’
“These images debunk stereotypes about black people especially women, they give us a glimpse into the deep beautiful bones of women of African descent, African women, blacks across the globe ( Pan-African). I hope you enjoy them and be inspired to imitate some of their natural hair styles, head wraps/ties and generally their Afro-centric fashion.
What these women taught us is that you can wear your roots, Africaness in a sophisticated manner, so don’t believe the internalized taught self-hate, colonized, slave mentality that it is backwards, not formal to look ” african” be it with our natural hair, in our beautiful African fabrics and head wraps/ ties. You can be African in the office, at the club, on the streets, at the farm, at school etc most of the women attached are everyday people working and impacting the world in their respective careers, so you can do it. Black is beautiful therefore you have no reason to be ashamed of who you are. Enjoy!”
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by Binyavanga Wainaina
Always use the word ‘Africa’ or ‘Darkness’ or ‘Safari’ in your title. Subtitles may include the words ‘Zanzibar’, ‘Masai’, ‘Zulu’, ‘Zambezi’, ‘Congo’, ‘Nile’, ‘Big’, ‘Sky’, ‘Shadow’, ‘Drum’, ‘Sun’ or ‘Bygone’. Also useful are words such as ‘Guerrillas’, ‘Timeless’, ‘Primordial’ and ‘Tribal’. Note that ‘People’ means Africans who are not black, while ‘The People’ means black Africans.
Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel Prize. An AK-47, prominent ribs, naked breasts: use these. If you must include an African, make sure you get one in Masai or Zulu or Dogon dress.
Text from GRANTA
In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country. It is hot and dusty with rolling grasslands and huge herds of animals and tall, thin people who are starving. Or it is hot and steamy with very short people who eat primates. Don’t get bogged down with precise descriptions. Africa is big: fifty-four countries, 900 million people who are too busy starving and dying and warring and emigrating to read your book. The continent is full of deserts, jungles, highlands, savannahs and many other things, but your reader doesn’t care about all that, so keep your descriptions romantic and evocative and un-particular.
Make sure you show how Africans have music and rhythm deep in their souls, and eat things no other humans eat. Do not mention rice and beef and wheat; monkey-brain is an African’s cuisine of choice, along with goat, snake, worms and grubs and all manner of game meat. Make sure you show that you are able to eat such food without flinching, and describe how you learn to enjoy it—because you care.
Taboo subjects: ordinary domestic scenes, love between Africans (unless a death is involved), references to African writers or intellectuals, mention of school-going children who are not suffering from yaws or Ebola fever or female genital mutilation.
Throughout the book, adopt a sotto voice, in conspiracy with the reader, and a sad I-expected-so-much tone. Establish early on that your liberalism is impeccable, and mention near the beginning how much you love Africa, how you fell in love with the place and can’t live without her. Africa is the only continent you can love—take advantage of this. If you are a man, thrust yourself into her warm virgin forests. If you are a woman, treat Africa as a man who wears a bush jacket and disappears off into the sunset. Africa is to be pitied, worshiped or dominated. Whichever angle you take, be sure to leave the strong impression that without your intervention and your important book, Africa is doomed.
Your African characters may include naked warriors, loyal servants, diviners and seers, ancient wise men living in hermitic splendour. Or corrupt politicians, inept polygamous travel-guides, and prostitutes you have slept with. The Loyal Servant always behaves like a seven-year-old and needs a firm hand; he is scared of snakes, good with children, and always involving you in his complex domestic dramas. The Ancient Wise Man always comes from a noble tribe (not the money-grubbing tribes like the Gikuyu, the Igbo or the Shona). He has rheumy eyes and is close to the Earth. The Modern African is a fat man who steals and works in the visa office, refusing to give work permits to qualified Westerners who really care about Africa. He is an enemy of development, always using his government job to make it difficult for pragmatic and good-hearted expats to set up NGOs or Legal Conservation Areas. Or he is an Oxford-educated intellectual turned serial-killing politician in a Saville Row suit. He is a cannibal who likes Cristal champagne, and his mother is a rich witch-doctor who really runs the country.
Artist, Mary Sibande is a young South African artist born in 1982. Through paintings and sculpture, she explores the construction of identity in a post-colonial context, in South Africa, and also criticizes stereotypes of black women.
Among your characters you must always include The Starving African, who wanders the refugee camp nearly naked, and waits for the benevolence of the West. Her children have flies on their eyelids and pot bellies, and her breasts are flat and empty. She must look utterly helpless. She can have no past, no history; such diversions ruin the dramatic moment. Moans are good. She must never say anything about herself in the dialogue except to speak of her (unspeakable) suffering. Also be sure to include a warm and motherly woman who has a rolling laugh and who is concerned for your well-being. Just call her Mama. Her children are all delinquent. These characters should buzz around your main hero, making him look good. Your hero can teach them, bathe them, feed them; he carries lots of babies and has seen Death. Your hero is you (if reportage), or a beautiful, tragic international celebrity/aristocrat who now cares for animals (if fiction).
Bad Western characters may include children of Tory cabinet ministers, Afrikaners, employees of the World Bank. When talking about exploitation by foreigners mention the Chinese and Indian traders. Blame the West for Africa’s situation. But do not be too specific.
Broad brushstrokes throughout are good. Avoid having the African characters laugh, or struggle to educate their kids, or just make do in mundane circumstances. Have them illuminate something about Europe or America in Africa. African characters should be colourful, exotic, larger than life—but empty inside, with no dialogue, no conflicts or resolutions in their stories, no depth or quirks to confuse the cause.
Describe, in detail, naked breasts (young, old, conservative, recently raped, big, small) or mutilated genitals, or enhanced genitals. Or any kind of genitals. And dead bodies. Or, better, naked dead bodies. And especially rotting naked dead bodies. Remember, any work you submit in which people look filthy and miserable will be referred to as the ‘real Africa’, and you want that on your dust jacket. Do not feel queasy about this: you are trying to help them to get aid from the West. The biggest taboo in writing about Africa is to describe or show dead or suffering white people.
Animals, on the other hand, must be treated as well rounded, complex characters. They speak (or grunt while tossing their manes proudly) and have names, ambitions and desires. They also have family values: see how lions teach their children? Elephants are caring, and are good feminists or dignified patriarchs. So are gorillas. Never, ever say anything negative about an elephant or a gorilla. Elephants may attack people’s property, destroy their crops, and even kill them. Always take the side of the elephant. Big cats have public-school accents. Hyenas are fair game and have vaguely Middle Eastern accents. Any short Africans who live in the jungle or desert may be portrayed with good humour (unless they are in conflict with an elephant or chimpanzee or gorilla, in which case they are pure evil).
After celebrity activists and aid workers, conservationists are Africa’s most important people. Do not offend them. You need them to invite you to their 30,000-acre game ranch or ‘conservation area’, and this is the only way you will get to interview the celebrity activist. Often a book cover with a heroic-looking conservationist on it works magic for sales. Anybody white, tanned and wearing khaki who once had a pet antelope or a farm is a conservationist, one who is preserving Africa’s rich heritage. When interviewing him or her, do not ask how much funding they have; do not ask how much money they make off their game. Never ask how much they pay their employees.
Readers will be put off if you don’t mention the light in Africa. And sunsets, the African sunset is a must. It is always big and red. There is always a big sky. Wide empty spaces and game are critical—Africa is the Land of Wide Empty Spaces. When writing about the plight of flora and fauna, make sure you mention that Africa is overpopulated. When your main character is in a desert or jungle living with indigenous peoples (anybody short) it is okay to mention that Africa has been severely depopulated by Aids and War (use caps).
You’ll also need a nightclub called Tropicana, where mercenaries, evil nouveau riche Africans and prostitutes and guerrillas and expats hang out.
Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care. ■
One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina, is available to buy here.
The Author Binyavanga Wainaina lives in Nairobi, Kenya. He is the founding editor of Kwani?, a leading African literary magazine. He won the 2002 Caine Prize for African writing, and has written for Vanity Fair, Granta and the New York Times. Wainaina directs the Chinua Achebe Centre for African Writers and Artists at Bard College, NY.
The legendary Princess Elizabeth of Toro (Uganda), and Charlene Dash,1969 Harper’s BAZAAR.
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Protesters took shelter during clashes outside the Ministry of Defense in Cairo, Egypt, Friday.
Egyptian armed forces and protesters clashed, with troops firing water cannons and tear gas at demonstrators who threw stones as they tried to march on the ministry.
(Hamada Elrasam/Associated Press)
Quote: “I can’t believe the violence in Cairo, it feels like a perpetual cycle. Can a president stop this? If not we’re fucked.” Lily Grimes, Video journalist
“Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.”
A collection of audio-files of Malcolm X’s most prominent speeches, including ‘The Prospects for Freedom in 1965’ HERE
“When I’m born I’m black, when I grow up I’m black, when I’m in the sun I’m black, when I’m sick I’m black, when I die I’m black, and you… when you’re born you’re pink, when you grow up you’re white, when you’re cold you’re blue, when you’re sick you’re blue, when you die you’re green and you dare call me colored”
“My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
“If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.”
“To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, your understanding of and attitude towards yourself will also becomes more positive…”
“When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. When you have poor schools, you have poor teachers. When you have poor teachers, you get a poor education. When you get a poor education, you can only work in a poor-paying job. And that poor-paying job enables you to live again in a poor neighborhood. So, it’s a very vicious cycle.”
“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
“True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.”
“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”
“If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.”
“You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
“My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
“If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”
“People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.”
“Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.”
“I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don’t believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn’t want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I’m not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn’t know how to return the treatment”
“You don’t stick a knife in a man’s back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you’re making progress … No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition, whites show towards me, as far as I am concerned, as long as it is not shown to everyone of our people in this country, it doesn’t exist for me.”
“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”
“I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don’t think it will be based on the color of the skin…”
“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.”
“If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success. ”
“We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”
“You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker”
“It’s good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have to weigh all of what you’ve heard on its own, and place it where it belongs, and come to a decision for yourself; you’ll never regret it. But if you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you’ll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.”
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
“Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.”
“It’s good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have to weigh all of what you’ve heard on its own, and place it where it belongs, and come to a decision for yourself; you’ll never regret it. But if you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you’ll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.”
“To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace”
“The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba - yes Cuba too.”
“I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they’ll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.”
“Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.”
“I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his…”
“I’m sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.”
“Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.”
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Documented civilian deaths from violence 106,532 – 116,366
Full analysis of the WikiLeaks’ Iraq War Logs may add 13,000 civilian deaths.
APRIL TOTAL: 290 CIVILIANS KILLED.
Baghdad: 4 family members stabbed, 2 killed by IED.
Iskandariya: 1 body.
Baquba: 2 policemen by gunfire.
April casualties so far: 283 civilians killed.
Khalis: 1 by gunfire.
Albu Etha: 2 by gunfire.
Saadiya: 2 by AEDs.
Samarra: 1 by AED.
Baaj: 2 by IED.
Al-Hadid: 1 policeman by gunfire.
Baghdad: 2 by IED.
Abu Garma: 4 family members by gunfire.
April casualties so far: 270 civilians killed.
Abu Saida: 10 by car bombs.
Baghdad: 3 by car bombs.
Tal Afar: 3 in clashes.
April casualties so far: 266 civilians killed.
Baghdad: 2 by hand grenades.
Mosul: 5 by gunfire.
Muqdadiya: 1 body.
Husseiniya: 1 body.
Shakha: 1 body.
April casualties so far: 250 civilians killed.
Baghdad: 2 by IEDs.
Mosul: 3 by gunfire.
Samarra: 1 by AED.
Tuz Khurmato: 1 doctor by gunfire.
April casualties so far: 240 civilians killed.
Azeim: 2 Sahwa members by gunfire.
Yathrib: 2 pupils by gunfire.
Tikrit: 1 traffic policeman by AED.
Iskandariya: 1 body.
Baghdad: 2 by gunfire.
Taji: 1 Sahwa member by gunfire.
Muqdadiya: 1 policeman by gunfire.
April casualties so far: 233 civilians killed.
Baghdad: 1 intelligence officer by gunfire.
Mosul: 2 by gunfire.
Kirkuk: 1 university student, by gunfire.
Shirqat: 2 policeman by IED.
Baghdad: 3 by IEDs.
Mosul: 1 by gunfire.
Tuz Khurmato: 1 policeman by gunfire.
Tawilaa Milih: 1 body.
April casualties so far: 219 civilians killed.
Shirqat: 1 policeman by IED.
Baghdad: 1 preacher by gunfire.
Baghdad: 15 by bombs.
Kirkuk: 5 by car bomb, 1 by gunfire.
Dibis: 4 by mortars.
Ramadi: 4 by car bombs.
Samarra-Falluja road: 4 policemen by AED.
Samarra: 3 Sahwa members by car bombs.
Baquba: 3 killed in separate incidents.
Amiriya: 2 by gunfire.
Hadid: 1 policeman by gunfire.
Mosul: 2 by IED.
Saadiya: 1 child’s body.
Muqdadiya: 1 killed.
Hudayda: 1 policeman by gunfire.
Mansuriya: 1 policeman by gunfire.
April casualties so far: 209 civilians killed.
Balad: 2 by IEDs.
Mosul: 3 in separate incidents.
Kirkuk: 1 body.
Tharthar: 1 policeman by IED.
Falluja: 1 policeman by IED.
Baghdad: 3 in separate incidents.
Mosul: 1 policeman by gunfire, 1 body.
Baghdad: 4 by IED.
Riyadh: 1 by gunfire.
Hawija: 1 by AED.
Rashidiya: 4 farmers by gunfire.
Saadiya: 4 family members in IED explosion.
Tuz Khurmato: 1 policeman by gunfire.
Mosul: 2 by gunfire.
Balad: 1 by gunfire.
Deli Abbas: 1 body.
Al-Qasim: 1 body.
Jalawla: 1 by IED.
Al-Mansuriya: 1 policeman by gunfire.
Al-Hajaj: 1 by gunfire.
April casualties so far: 142 civilians killed.
Taji: 3 killed when house is blown up.
Mosul: 2 killed in separate incidents.
Kirkuk: 1 by car bomb.
Baghdad: 1 by AED.
Riyaz: 1 by IED.
Buhruz: 1 by gunfire.
April casualties so far: 125 civilians killed.
Baiji: 1 policeman by IED.
Ramadi: 2 policemen by IED.
Baghdad: 2 policemen by AED.
Mosul: 3 by gunfire.
Haditha: 1 policeman by gunfire.
April casualties so far: 116 civilians killed.
Tarmiya: 5 pilgrims by gunfire.
Baghdad: 2 pilgrims by gunfire, IED, 1 policeman by AED.
Kut: 2 bodies.
Ramadi: 3 policemen by IEDs.
April casualties so far: 107 civilians killed.
Kirkuk: 5 by gunfire.
Mosul: 3 by grenade, 2 by gunfire, 2 bodies.
Baghdad: 1 policeman by AED.
Habaniya: 1 policeman by AED.
Falluja: 1 policeman by IED.
Diwaniya: 1 child by dynamite.
Riyadh: 2 policemen by gunfire.
Iskandariya: 1 body.
April casualties so far: 94 civilians killed.
Baquba: 5 family members by IEDs.
Mosul: 3 by gunfire.
Kirkuk: 1 by gunfire.
Wassit: 1 body.
Mafraq: 1 by IED.
April casualties so far: 75 civilians killed.
Kirkuk: 1 body.
Mosul: 1 by AED.
Badush: 2 by IEDs.
Kirkuk: 2 by IEDs.
Tuz Khurmato: 2 Sahwa members by gunfire.
Atshana: 1 by IED.
Baghdad: 1 by suicide car bomber.
Mosul: 1 policeman by gunfire.
Baghdad: 2 killed in separate incidents.
Mosul: 2 policemen by gunfire.
Shirqat: 2 by gunfire.
Barud: 1 by gunfire.
April casualties so far: 53 civilians killed.
Hamam Alil: 2 policemen by mortars.
Baghdad: 2 by bomb on minibus.
Khan Bani Saad: 3 policemen by IED.
Mosul: 1 by gunfire.
Qayara: 1 policeman by gunfire.
April casualties so far: 46 civilians killed.
Shirqat: 1 by gunfire.
Mosul: 2 by gunfire.
Falluja: 1 by IEDs.
Dhuluiya: 6 by car bomb.
Qaem: 2 by gunfire.
Baquba: 1 by AED.
Tikrit: 1 policeman by AED.
Khalis: 1 by gunfire.
Kirkuk: 1 body.
Karbala: 1 by IED.
Mosul: 2 by grenade.
Kut: 1 student, stabbed.
Mosul: 1 by gunfire.
Haditha: 2 farmers by gunfire.
Khitara: 1 Yazidi man by gunfire.
Diwaniya: 1 preacher by gunfire.
Mosul: 6 by gunfire.
Tikrit: 1 TV presenter by AED.
Diwaniya: 4 bodies.
Mosul: 1 schoolmaster by gunfire.
(Source: reasonstorevolt, via stagnantfilth)
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