About 100 Dealths Every Day Due to Violence in Iraq

伊拉克每天约一百人死于暴力

United Nations humanitarian aid official Jan Egeland says the violence in Iraq is going unchecked, claiming about 100 lives per day. Jan Egeland says the victims include police recruits, judges and lawyers. He says women also have increasingly become the victims of so-called honor crimes. Egeland told reporters Wednesday in Geneva that 315-thousand people in Iraq have been displaced in the past eight months.

A study estimates that some 655-thousand Iraqis have died since the March 2003 invasion of their country.

The study, published in the British journal The Lancet, says about 600-thousand of those people died from violence, mostly gunfire. It says deaths from car bombings also have increased. Researchers also found a small increase in deaths from disease and other causes.

联合国人道救援官员埃格兰说，伊拉克的暴力活动没有得到控制，每天都夺取大约100人的生命。埃格兰说，受害者包括新招募的警察、法官和律师。他说，越来越多的妇女也正成为恐怖罪行的受害者。埃格兰星期三在日内瓦对记者说，过去8个月来伊拉克有31万5千人流离失所。

一份研究报告估计，自2003年3月联军开战攻入伊拉克以来，已经有大约65万5千名伊拉克人死亡。

这份在英国《柳叶刀》杂志上发表的文章说，死者中大约有60万人死于暴力，其中大部份是死在枪炮之下。文章还说，死于汽车炸弹爆炸的人数在增加，死于疾病和其它原因的人数也有小幅增加。