9/18/2011

1 Million Iraqi Women Widowed By Iraq War

A staggering number of wives in Iraq lost their husbands in the years of violence following the U.S. invasion in 2003, a study released Sunday showed. The Los Angeles-based Relief International found that 1.5 million of the estimated 15 million Iraqi women are widows, and three out of every five of them were widowed during the war. The study warned that ignoring their suffering could lead them to prostitution, drugs and terrorism. "The Iraqi state has neglected the widows with their enormous problems, and the solutions lie in the establishing of bodies to take care of and solve the problems of these women," the report said.
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2 comments:

  1. Come onnnnnn........

    They aren't worried about people (the war fallout) in this country.

    You think they have any care at all about others?

    (I know you just hope they do.)

    Love ya,

    S

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  2. Unfortunately you are right, Suzan. By the way, the link in the post was a bad one. I have set up a new, and more interesting one now.

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