Hundreds of civilians have allegedly been killed in western Mosul during the first week of March during battles to capture the city, according to reports monitored by Airwars.

​Airwars has reviewed eleven separate incidents that occured over the first six days of the month, each of which was blamed – in part or wholly – on the Coalition by at least one source. Local reports allege that between 250 and 370 civilians were killed in these attacks.

​Four of these incidents have thus far been graded by researchers as fairly attributed, meaning there were two or more credible reports blaming the US-led alliance, and with Coalition airstrikes confirmed in the area. Those four incidents alone indicate between 71-79 civilian deaths.

​​The other events feature contesting reports that also blamed Iraqi forces or so-called Islamic State. Whoever the perpetrator, the reported upswing in civilian casualties in the first days of March serves as a bloody harbinger of the civilian toll in western Mosul.

Earlier this week the government of Finland outstretched its hand to Iraqi refugees to discuss and possibly revise, existing discriminatory immigration policies.

Months of unrelenting protest activities coordinated by Iraqi asylum seekers in Finland, have finally yielded some anticipated results.

Their popular demands have been responded to.  Finland can no longer ignore the commitment of asylum seekers in their peaceful efforts to subvert a deportation campaign they deplore as unjustifiable.

Existing laws modified by the Parliament in 2015, resulted in tighter restrictions forcing thousands of Iraqis back to a country where death lurks behind every corner.
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