Violence acts in Iraq drop last month, 279 people killed, Legal Observatory reports

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Iraq‘s Constitutional Rights and Freedoms Observatory has announced on Monday that October month had witnessed a decrease in violence acts, as the total number of those killed during the month had reached 279, along with 601injured and 1,405 detained. The Observatory, in its monthly report copy of which landed in IraqiNews.com News Agency, said: “Our Observatory has noticed, through its follow up of the datas of violence victoms during the month of October a clear decrease in such acts compared with the previous months, though such acts still ‘represent a tax paid by several innocent civilians, thing that puts full responsibility on the security bodies and all other bodies supporting them, who have to exert full efforts to put an end to such violations.” “According to the said datas, reached upon during the period from 1st to 31st October, 2010, violence acts, such as killings, woundings and assassinations, have registered about 880 casualties,” the report said “adding that the victoms of explosive and sticking charges, booby-trapps and bombs, have caused 279 victims among civilians, most severe of which have been in Basra, Nineveh, Baghdad, Diyala and Anbar Provinces,” it added. It pointed out that “police and army victims were 35, pointing out that the victims of killings and unknown bodies have reached 76, whilst assassinations victims reached 19, most severe of which were in Nineveh, Baghdad and Anbar.” As regards to execution decisions issued last month, the Observatory said that “seven execution decisions were issued in Baghdad, Salahaddin and Nineveh Provinces,” whilst the inspection assaults had registered a clear rise during themonth, as it reached 450 cases in Baghdad, Kirkuk, Dhi-Qar, Diyala, Salahddin and Anbar Provinces.” The Observatory, meanwhile, had called for “the preparation of plans to reach decisions to stop violence and their practices that differ from one province and another, according to the acts of the armed groups.” SKH 1