Wire reports attested that anonymous gunmen near Baghdad six men on April 6, while another 11 people were killed across the country. In what were routine assassinations, police investigators stumbled on the bodies, all with gunshot wounds to the head. No one claimed responsibility for these slayings, or for most of the others that have plagued Iraq for years. Few could decipher any motives for killings that have, regrettably, become part of Iraqi society. Even worse, while such executions , a new wave of violence that may have sectarian connotations, has seen the toll rise in recent months. According to the United Nations Mission to Iraq, 733 individuals were , while the toll reached 703 people in February. These figures showed a rising wave of militant attacks, which journalists labelled “a surge of violence that began 10 months ago”, when the government launched a systematic crackdown that chiefly targeted […]