5 journalists killed in Iraq in 2012

Xinhua reports (December 29^th): Five journalists were killed in Iraq's violence during 2012, bringing the number of the journalists killed in the country to 373 since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, an Iraqi journalists' body said.

"The ongoing violence against journalists indicates that media work in Iraq is still dangerous," said a report made by the Iraqi Journalists' Syndicate.

http://english.cntv.cn/20121229/115952.shtml

From The Guardian

Baha Mousa doctor Derek Keilloh struck off after 'repeated dishonesty'

The Guardian reports (December 21^st): A former army doctor found guilty of misconduct by medical watchdogs over the death of an Iraqi man who was tortured to death by British soldiers has been struck off the register.

Derek Keilloh was found to be unfit to continue to practise after a panel concluded that he acted in a dishonest way after the death of Baha Mousa in September 2003, and had failed to protect other men who were being mistreated at the same time.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/21/baha-mousa-doctor-struck-off

MoD pays out millions to Iraqi torture victims

The Guardian reports (December 20^th): The Ministry of Defence has paid out £14m in compensation and costs to hundreds of Iraqis who complained that they were illegally detained and tortured by British forces during the five-year occupation of the south-east of the country.

Hundreds more claims are in the pipeline as Iraqis become aware that they are able to bring proceedings against the UK authorities in the London courts.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/dec/20/mod-iraqi-torture-victims

Iraq abuse inquiry was a 'cover-up', whistleblower tells court

The Guardian reports (December 11^th): A former investigator into allegations that British troops abused Iraqi prisoners resigned because she did not want to be implicated in "a cover-up", the high court has heard.

Louise Thomas, 45, left the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT) in July because she thought it was not a genuine investigation but a "face-saving inquiry", she told the court.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/11/iraq-abuse-inquiry-whistleblower-court

U.S.-U.K. Genocide Against Iraq 1990-2012 Killed 3.3 Millions

OpEd News reports (December 3^rd): Approximately 3.3 million Iraqis, including 750,000 children, were "exterminated" by economic sanctions and/or illegal wars conducted by the U.S. and Great Britain between 1990 and 2012, an eminent international legal authority says.

The slaughter fits the classic definition of Genocide Convention Article II of, "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part," says Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois, Champaign in an address last Nov. 22 to The International Conference on War-affected Children in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/U-S-U-K-Genocide-Against-by-Sherwood-Ross-121203-78.html

Ramadi

‘Iraqis cannot forget what Americans have done here’

Cathy Breen writes (November 29^th): I sat in on a lecture, given in English, to maybe fifty or more young men and women at a college in Ramadi.

An impassioned young woman from the middle of the lecture hall spoke up. It was obviously not easy for her. “It is not,” she said, “about lack of water and electricity [something I had mentioned]. You have destroyed everything. You have destroyed our country. You have destroyed what is inside of us! You have destroyed our ancient civilization. You have taken our smiles from us. You have taken our dreams!”

Someone asked, “Why did you this? What did we do to you that you would do this to us?”

“Iraqis cannot forget what Americans have done here,” said another.

http://antiwar.com/blog/2012/11/29/iraqis-cannot-forget-what-americans-have-done-here/