As violence falls in Iraq, cemetery workers feel the pinch - Yahoo! News


As violence falls in Iraq, cemetery workers feel the pinch


By Jay Price and Qasim Zein, McClatchy Newspapers Tue Oct 16, 2:40 PM ET

NAJAF, Iraq — At what's believed to be the world's largest cemetery, where Shiite Muslims aspire to be buried and millions already have been, business isn't good.

A drop in violence around Iraq has cut burials in the huge Wadi al Salam cemetery here by at least one-third in the past six months, and that's cut the pay of thousands of workers who make their living digging graves, washing corpses or selling burial shrouds.

Few people have a better sense of the death rate in Iraq……

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I am pretty sure you did not expect the burial business to stay too good for very long..........Isn't that the goal to decrease the violence?

The cemetaries were employing so many people because that kind of work was needed.............but you can't base an economy off of death forever can you?

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" this spring the bodies arrived at a rate of 6500 a month , now its dropped to 4000 a month"

And this is just one cemetery in Najaf Iraq.


Gix do you even read the stuff you post?




Don't worry gix thanks to Bush the grave diggers have still got plenty to do in iraq

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Do you think thoes numbers will go up or down if we leave? UP UP UP!

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