Iraq, Up Close: Bodies And Terror

Blood Of Innocents, Says Lara Logan, Writes New Chapter In History

Lara Logan, CBS News

There is a moment when you realize that no matter what the consequences, you have stumbled across a story that must be told. That is how it was when I first heard that Sunni people were too terrified to go to hospitals in Baghdad because they might be targeted and killed by Shiite death squads. This is the most cynical example I've encountered of how sectarian violence is destroying Iraq's people. Not just because patients have been murdered and their family members followed and executed, but because people in need are being denied their most basic human right: to seek medical care. Ironically, the people who risked their lives to help me tell this story of how medical institutions have been turned into instruments of sectarian slaughter against Sunnis, are all Shiites. Because, as decent human beings, they do not want such acts committed in their name. They do not want the blood of their neighbors and friends on their hands. And they want the killing to stop...

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