عراق میں تشدد کو نظر انداز کیا گیا: وکی لیکس

انٹرنیٹ پر خفیہ معلومات شائع کرنے والی ویب سائیٹ وکی لیکس نے کلِک عراق میں امریکی جنگ کے بارے میں چار لاکھ خفیہ دستاویزات جاری کردی ہیں جن سے پتہ چلتا ہے کہ امریکی فوج نے عراقی حکام کے ہاتھوں عراقی شہریوں پر تشدد کو جانتے بوجھتے نظر انداز کیا۔

دستاویزات یہ بھی بتاتی ہیں کہ 2003ء میں عراق پر امریکی فوج کے حملے کے بعد امریکی فوج کی حفاظتی چوکیوں پر سینکڑوں شہریوں کو قتل کیا گیا اور یہ کہ امریکہ کے پاس عراقی شہریوں کی ہلاکتوں کا ریکارڈ موجود تھا جس سے وہ انکار کرتا رہا ہے۔

خفیہ دستاویزات کے مطابق عراق میں جنگ کے دوران ایک لاکھ نو ہزار افراد ہلاک ہوئے جن میں چھیاسٹھ ہزار اکیاسی عام شہری تھے۔

امریکہ نے ان دستاویزات کو منظر عام پر لانے کے عمل پر کڑی تنقید کی ہے جو کہ اسکی تاریخ میں خفیہ دستاویزات کے انکشاف کا سب سے بڑا واقعہ ہے۔

امریکی وزیر خارجہ ہلیری کلنٹن نے واشنگٹن میں صحافیوں سے بات کرتے کہا کہ وہ ’افراد اور اداروں کی جانب سے ایسی معلومات کو افشاء کرنے کی واضح الفاظ میں مذمت کرتی ہیں جو امریکہ اور اسکے ساتھی ملکوں کے اہلکاروں اور شہریوں کی زندگیوں کو خطرے میں ڈالتی ہوں۔‘

وکی لیکس کی جانب سے منکشف کی گئی ان معلومات میں بتایا گیا ہے کہ جنگ کے دوران کس طرح عراقی حکام اپنے ہی شہریوں پر تشدد کرتے رہے ہیں جن میں وہ زیر حراست شہریوں کرنٹ لگانے اور ان کے جسموں میں ڈرل مشین سے سوراخ کرنے سے لے کر انہیں جان سے بھی مارتے رہے ہیں۔

بی بی سی کے نامہ نگاروں کا کہنا ہے کہ دستاویزات سے ظاہر ہوتا ہے کہ امریکی فوج، عراقی حکام کے ہاتھوں شہریوں پر تشدد کی ان کارروائیوں سے باخبر ہے لیکن امریکی فوج کے اہلکاروں نے اپنے حکام کو بھیجی گئی رپورٹوں پر یہ لکھا ہے کہ اس بارے میں مزید کوئی تفتیش نہیں کی گئی۔

Wave of deadly bombings in Iraq

More than 30 people have been killed and dozens have been injured in a series of bomb attacks across Iraq.

There have been several blasts in Baghdad, including one in which 15 people died. At least 15 were killed in a suicide attack in Kut in the south.

One person was killed by a car bomb in Kirkuk, and there were explosions in Baghdad, Basra, Ramadi and Karbala.

The violence comes ahead of the withdrawal of US combat troops at end of the month.

In Baghdad:

• A suicide car bomb hit a police station in the north-east of the city, killing 15, 58 injured, most of them police
• A parked car bomb in the centre of the city near the Muthana Airport Highway killed two people and injured seven
• A device exploded in Haifa Street, injuring three people
• A device exploded in Karrada, injuring five people
• A device exploded in Ahmariyah in western Baghdad, targeted an army patrol, injuring three soldiers.

In other incidents:

• In Kut, a suicide car bomber attacked a police station, killing at least 15 people
• In Kirkuk, a car bomb killed one person and injured eight
• In Basra, a car exploded as police towed it from a parking lot, killing one person and injuring eight
• In Ramadi, a car exploded as alleged bombers were working on it, while a second car exploded about 1km away, injuring 12 people
• In Karbala, a suicide car bomb exploded at police checkpoint at the entrance to police station, injuring 30 people.

Iraq gunmen kill at least 25 in attack on Sunni village

Iraqi gunmen have killed 25 people believed to be linked to Sunni militias opposing al-Qaeda, police say.

Five women were among those killed, as the gunmen in army uniforms pulled the victims out of their houses in a village south of Baghdad on Saturday.

The victims were reported to have been tied up before being shot in the head.

Sunni militias turned against al-Qaeda and its militant allies two years ago in what was a key turning point in the campaign to quell the Iraqi insurgency.

Baghdad security spokesman Maj Gen Qassim al-Moussawi said police found seven survivors handcuffed in the same area.

"Also we confiscated the vehicle which was used in this attack," he said.

Local resident Muhammad Mubarak described what happened as "a tragedy".

"A group wearing National Guard uniforms and carrying night vision equipment stormed the homes of the victims and took them to their front gardens," he said.

"Then they handcuffed them with plastic tape and shot them in the head with guns fitted with silencers."

Mohammad al-Askari, of the defence ministry, said 24 people had been arrested from another Sunni village nearby with links to al-Qaeda.

"According to our investigation the perpetrators came from a village around 500m away.

"They are from the same tribe. They were around 25 armed men, wearing military uniform.

"One of them could say a few words in English to give the impression that this was a joint Iraqi-American patrol.

"They had with them a list of names, they knocked at the door, called out a name, then took the man or the woman who came out to a grove and killed them."

He added: "Our investigation has shown that they came from a village loyal to al-Qaeda network."

Insurgent stronghold

The village of Sufiya where the attack happened lies in a mainly Sunni area that used to be an insurgent stronghold.

In the past two years there have been many attacks aimed at punishing or intimidating Sunnis, but this is one of the bloodiest for some time, says the BBC's Jim Muir in Baghdad.

It shows that al-Qaeda or its allies are still in business, though much less effective than in the past, he adds, and there is no evidence they are regaining hearts and minds within the Sunni community.

The Sunni militias that lent their support to the government are known as Awakening Councils, or the Sons of Iraq.

US authorities set up the militias, paying, arming and training their members before Iraqi authorities took control of them in late 2008.