BASRA:

CRIME AND INSECURITY UNDER BRITISH OCCUPATION

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Table of Contents

I. Summary and Introduction

II. Recommendations

To British Forces Occupying Basra and Misan Governorates:
To the Provisional Coalition Authority, including the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA):
To the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and U.N. Agencies:

III. The Context of Insecurity

IV. The security situation immediately after the fall of Basra

V. Six weeks later: Continuing Criminality in Basra

Homicides and Possible Reprisal Killings
Lack of Security and Humanitarian and Medical Operations
Problems Particular to Women and Children
Continuing Lack of Security at Basra University

VI. Legal Obligation of Coalition Forces to Provide Security in Iraq

VII. Coalition Attempts at Reconstituting Security in Southern Iraq

Policing
Penal System and Prisons
Legal system

Acknowledgements