But...what about the schools?

Why don't the media report the good news from Iraq? Could it be that, like the light of a barely visible, distant star that is obliterated by the Sun at high noon, it gets completely overwhelmed by the quotidian violence and horror that is ubiquitous outside the Green Zone?

Rights Under Assault In Iraq, U.N. Unit Says

BAGHDAD, May 23 -- Human rights in Iraq are being "severely undermined" by growing insecurity, violence and a "breakdown of law and order" caused by militias and criminal gangs, the U.N. mission here said Tuesday.

The human rights update, issued every two months by the U.N. Assistance Mission in Iraq, cited soaring numbers of execution-style killings in Baghdad. Such slayings have increased during a surge of sectarian violence that followed the bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra on Feb. 22.

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