Dept. of Things We Learn From NGO Reports
Be Euprates of the Tigris River
River Tigris went from being the craddle of civilization to the graveyard of Baghdad. IRIN, a humanitarian news agency, reports a massive volume of floating bodies all along the Tigris.
The situation is even worse in Suwayrah, a southern area of the capital, where the government has built barriers with huge iron nets to trap plants and garbage dropped in the river but now this is also a barrier for bodies.
Under Saddam, people were punished for throwing trash in the river. (Probably severely punished.) Today mountains of trash line the banks. More bad news? Massive mud islands appear in the ever-more-shallow river during dry seasons. It’s great how U.S. reconstruction contractors can’t be trusted to build a sound police headquarters, and, like, restoring the Tigris would be way harder. [Source]
P.S. Wouldn’t this be an amazing TV news story? Post if you see it covered anywhere in the mainstream media.
