Baghdad-28 July 2008- The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Iraq (SRSG) Staffan de Mistura strongly condemned the shooting of innocent pilgrims in Mada’in on Sunday, 27 July in which seven pilgrims were killed, and the bombings in Baghdad and Kirkuk on Monday 28 July in which dozens of civilians were killed and hundreds more injured. The SRSG described these attacks as “vicious crimes committed against the defenseless by those who will stop at nothing in their quest to reignite sectarian and ethnic conflict.”
While extending the United Nations sincere condolences to the bereaved families and wishes for full and speedy recovery for the wounded, the SRSG called on all Iraqis to remain united and reject the violence that threatens all of them.
