IRAQI VICTIMS OF THE WAR

Early day motion 1634, tabled 8 September 2003 by Adam Price (Plaid Cymru). Signed by 29 members.

That this House notes with deep concern that there has been no official count of Iraqi civilian deaths following the conflict in Iraq, and that it is left to unofficial researchers, such as the Iraq Body Count, to estimate the figures, cited as being more than 5,000; further notes that Iraq's military dead also remain unnumbered; further notes that incidents such as the one in the Mansur district of Baghdad on 27th July where US forces killed at least five innocent people during a failed search for Saddam, should focus attention on the loss of civilian life in Iraq at the hands of US forces since the conflict ended; calls on the United Kingdom Government explicitly to agree with the principle that the Mansur victims and all other Iraqi victims deserve a proper inquest to put pressure on the US Administration to launch enquiries into all of the previous incidents in which civilians have been shot in Iraq since the conflict ended, including the one at Mansur, and to ensure that it is far more concerned in future with losses it inflicts on the Iraqi people and less obsessed with keeping a tally on the triumphant total of cards turned up so far in the deck of most-wanted Saddam supporters.

Signatures by party: Labour 19, Liberal Democrat 5, Plaid Cymru 4, Labour/Co-operative 1.