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Five years after the invasion Iraq Body Count (IBC) not only continues to keep a firm day-by-day count, it also maintains the largest public list of named and identified Iraqi dead.

IBC’s work remains a key and unique resource for institutions, researchers, media, and individual citizens.

But IBC is still run by volunteers on a shoestring. Billions are being spent on this war, but almost nothing on recording its Iraqi victims.

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Who has used IBC, and for what? Here are the main categories of use, with examples of each.

Uses of IBC by activists

Naming the dead

IBC has systematically collected names of those known to have been killed in the US-UK invasion and its aftermath.1

1 IBC's list of named and identified indviduals (Now updated continuously)

Activists worldwide have incorporated these names into installations and travelling exhibitions ( e.g. the “Eyes wide Open” exhibition organised by the American Friends Service Committee and shown in many major US cities Eyes Wide Open and Iraq Body Count (AFSC, 17 Sep 2004), and readings of lists of names at commemorative events.

In November 2004, led by Ruth Boswell and the UK “Stop the War Coalition,” names of Iraqi casualties were read out at simultaneous naming ceremonies in over 12 cities worldwide.

One activist, Milan Rai, has been convicted and jailed under the new UK Serious Organised Crime and Police Act, for reading names of Iraqi dead in a “prohibited” location outside the UK Parliament.

In March 2007 a six day reading of names of those killed in Iraq was organised by New York “Grannies for Peace” outside the Army Recruiting Centre.

These are four of many similar events commemorating the deaths of Iraqis which rely on IBC’s detailed data gathering, not always, but sometimes also, at personal risk to those commemorating them.

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