UN raps Bush's Iraq puppet government for holding back death civilian toll figures

http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/April/focusoniraq_April186.xml§ion=focusoniraq

25 April 2007

BAGHDAD - The United Nations rebuked Iraq’s government on Wednesday for refusing to disclose politically sensitive civilian casualty figures in what it described as a “rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis”.

Shia Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki’s government has accused the UN mission in Iraq of exaggerating the death toll from sectarian violence between majority Shias and minority Sunni Arabs and banned Iraqi officials from releasing data.

In a new human rights report on Iraq, the United Nations said academics, journalists and doctors and members of Iraq’s religious and ethnic minorities were increasingly being intimidated, killed or kidnapped by armed groups.

It also expressed concern about the treatment of 3,000 suspects detained in a major US-Iraqi crackdown in Baghdad. It said the government had a poor record of handling detainees.


But we know this is not genocide how?