The Tsunami of Iraq

The morgues at the hospitals of Baghdad are filling to capacity. At Yarmouk Hospital in central Baghdad, the three freezers reek of decaying bodies, despite the temperature.

The smell rushes out at us as the doors are opened. I’ve smelled the burning bodies on the funeral pires in Nepal but this is different. This smell how do I describe it? But it never leaves me, long after we leave the hospital later.

Dahr Jamail’s Iraq Dispatches [article cont]

If you want to see how it’s really like…