TimesOnline: At least 200 unclaimed bodies are buried every week in Iraq.

[sabra]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1495106.ece

Marked for death: where tattoos are a barcode on lost relatives

Tattoos, once the domain of the low-life criminals, hard drinkers and gamblers of Baghdad, now serve a practical purpose for ordinary Iraqis.

Middle-class men are getting tattoos to spare their families the misery of visiting morgues and police stations in vain for loved ones abducted by death squads or killed in a bombing.

They believe that the markings will act as a human bar-code and help their families to identify them. At least 200 unclaimed bodies are buried every week in Iraq.

[illinoisprogressive]

1. I know there is an obscene amt. of bodies turning up everydayt. When does it stop?

[MadMaddie]

2. So that's 200 a week, 800 a month....

It's a tradgedy and this Administration is directly responsible for every single one of those deaths...

[bonito]

3. Speechless, reality. n/t