Iraq accuses Allies of targeting civilians
27/03/2003 - 13:41:28Iraq’s health minister today said 36 Iraqis had been killed and 215 wounded in yesterday’s allied air strikes on Baghdad.
And he accused the United States and Britain of deliberately targeting civilians to break the will of the Iraqi people.
“They are targeting the human beings in Iraq to decrease their morale,” Omeed Medhat Mubarak said. “They are not discriminating, differentiating.”
The allies have denied targeting civilians and said it takes “extraordinary” measures to avoid hurting non-combatants.
In Baghdad, witnesses said an unknown number of people were killed and scores were injured in an attack on a complex where employees of the Military Industrialisation Authority of Iraq live.
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