There's So Much Violence In Iraq The Tragedy Has Become Easy To Ignore

In late November, Prashant Rao, the Baghdad bureau chief for Agence France-Presse, found himself with a terrible, familiar problem. The daily story he had to write on the news in Iraq – a typical one by that country’s standards, full of death and mayhem – contained so many violent incidents that he simply didn’t have room to mention them all.

So he took to Twitter (list of all his tweets that dayhttps://storify.com/prashantrao/violence-in-iraq-november-29-2013 ), Rao laid out each of the individual attacks from that single day. In Abu Ghraib, a roadside bomb at a market killed one and wounded five; in Tikrit, police found the bodies of seven maintenance workers on a soccer field, with their throats slit; in Diyala, a man was shot dead in front of his home; and on and on.

There’s So Much Violence In Iraq The Tragedy Has Become Easy To Ignore