Not news, just a chilling read.

In the week in which General Patraeus reports back to US Congress on the impact the recent ‘surge’ is having in Iraq, a new poll reveals that more than 1,000,000 Iraqi citizens have been murdered since the invasion took place in 2003.
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As well as a murder rate that now exceeds the Rwanda genocide from 1994 (800,000 murdered), not only have more than one million been injured but our poll calculates that of the millions of Iraqis that have fled their neighbourhoods, 52% have moved within Iraq but 48% have crossed its borders, with Syria taking the bulk of refugees.
More than 1,000,000 Iraqis murdered

No comment really needed. It's interesting that the highest rates of violent deaths are around the areas with allied troops. It doesn't prove anything more than the presence of troops seems to encourage violence.

Genocide seems to be a strong word, but if one follows the UN definition
"...any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group" it seems like the violence in Iraq is of genocidal proportions, that is endangering to destroy (at least in part) the Iraqi populous. It doesn't mean that the allied troops are causing it directly with their military presence, but surely a big chunk of the responsibility through aggression, mismanagement, etc... lies in the White House and Downing Street.

What a sobering read. Not genocide, since the intent is probably missing, but who is going to actually answer for so many deaths? The road to hell and good intentions?