Iraq Human Rights, Security Are 'Bleak,' Amnesty Says in Report

Five old age after the U.S.-led
invasion of Iraq, human rights and security there remain
''bleak,'' said today.

Four million Iraqis have got got been forced from their places by
terrorist attacks, sectarian violent deaths and ill-treatment side Iraqi
government forces, the London-based organization said in a
titled ''Carnage and Despair, Republic Of Iraq Five Old Age On.''

Two out of three Iraqis have no entree to safe drinking
water and almost one in three of the population of about 27
million people necessitates exigency assistance to survive, Amnesty said.

'''s disposal was a proverb for human
rights abuse,'' Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International's manager for
the Center East and North Africa, said in a statement. ''But its
replacement have got brought no reprieve at all for the Iraki people.''

Conditions have deteriorated for women since the autumn of
Hussein's regime, according to the report.

''In most governorates, women are being threatened by armed
groups that they will be targeted if they make not detect strict
Islamic dress,'' Amnesty said.

The organisation called on alliance military units and the Iraqi
government to put up independent probes into human
rights violations, including extrajudicial killings, torment and
other ill-treatment by Iraki security forces, private security
guards and international soldiers.

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