The dead in the Iraq war?

Iraq war inquiry 'ignoring 100,000 civilian deaths'

27 August 2010 - The official inquiry into the Iraq war has been accused of ignoring the deaths of the estimated 100,000 Iraqi civilians who have been killed since the 2003 invasion.

Iraq Body Count, a research group which has recorded between 97,000 and 106,000 civilian deaths since 2003, said the equivalent of an "Iraq war inquest" was needed because the Chilcot inquiry set up by Gordon Brown had failed to address this central issue.

The group has been pressing Sir John Chilcot, the inquiry chairman, to look into civilian casualties for a year but has now run out of patience. The amount of time devoted to Iraqi casualties has been "derisory" and the inquiry is "flawed", its report today said. {read more}