June 16, 2010
British government reveals Iraq compensation payments
London - The British government paid 8.8 million pounds (13 million dollars) in compensation to Iraqi citizens for damage and injury suffered as a result of military operations during the six-year conflict, it said Wednesday.
Figures released by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) showed that 4.17 million pounds were paid in response to 1,000 small claims made inside Iraq between 2003 and 2009.
Most of the 1,145 smaller payments were for damage to property and injuries caused by road accidents in and around Basra in southern Iraq, where British troops were based.
A further 4.64 million pounds were paid in cases brought in 2008 and 2009 at the High Court in London by 21 victims of unlawful treatment or torture in British custody.
They include the previously publicized sum of 2.83 million pounds paid in July 2008 to the family of Baha Mousa, a 26-year-old hotel worker, who died in British military detention in Basra in September 2003, and to nine other Iraqis held with him.
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1563769.php/British-government-reveals-Iraq-compensation-payments
