Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW Vol. 4 Num 345 Thu. May 20, 2004       Letters to Editor Situation in Iraq Md. Shafiqul Islam (Sagar), North Jatrabari, Dhaka Iraq has become a land of the dead. Everyday, coalition forces and Iraqi freedom fighters are being killed in clashes with each other. On the other hand, US and British soldiers are killing innocent Iraqi civilians including school going children that has broken all records of cruelty. The US and Britain jointly attacked Iraq, violating all rules and regulations of the UNO in order to capture Iraqi oilfields. They are torturing the Iraqi prisoners and later killing them and raping the helpless women. They have been drawing Iraqi oil (24 lakh barrel per day) and selling it for meeting the expenditure of the war. This is a heinous crime. But it is astonishing that the whole world is watching this US barbarism in Iraq as a silent viewer and no country or international organisations like the UNO, OIC and Arab League are taking any initiative to stop the wrong doings of the US. Heavy fighting is continuing between coalition forces and militiamen of Maketada al Sadr in the holy city of Nazaf, Karbala, Kufa, Baghdad, Basra etc. The US claimed that Iraqi president Saddam Hossain had weapons of mass destruction but they have not found those till now. In this situation, all countries and international organisations should take immediate action to stop the genocide.