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By Kazim, a Shia resident of Amara, Iraq, from a personal narrative recorded by the Current Violations in Iraq Project. Directed by Daniel Rothenberg of the International Human Rights Law Institute of the DePaul University College of Law, the project, which employs an all-Iraqi staff of interviewers and analysts, has collected testimony from 1,929 individuals on human-rights violations committed in Iraq since 2003.

Not all of the deeds of man are equal, just as not every person is equal. Therein lies the difference between good and evil.

I am a simple young man. I live in the governorate of Maysan…

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