Amnesty: Iraq still one of world’s worst danger zones

AMNESTY International yesterday said the rights situation in Iraq five years after the US-led invasion was “disastrous” and that the country had turned into one of the world’s most dangerous zones.

“Five years after the US-led invasion that toppled [former president] Saddam Hussein, Iraq is one of the most dangerous countries in the world,” it said in a 24-page report, entitled Carnage and Despair: Iraq Five Years On.

Against a backdrop of insecurity, law and order and economic recovery were a “distant prospect” while most Iraqis were living in poverty, with food shortages, lack of access to safe drinking water and high unemployment, the report found.