“Nearly 19,000 C ivilians Killed in Iraq: Shot, Beheaded, Bulldozed, Thrown from Buildings”

The U.N. report, released Tuesday, outlines the horrific impact that Iraq’s ongoing conflict is having on its civilian population.

The numbers are mind-boggling. In the 21-month period:

• At least 18,802 civilians were killed, about half of them in Baghdad alone.

• Another 36,245 were wounded.

• About 3.2 million people were internally displaced, including a million school-aged children.

The actual figures could be much higher, the report said.

“The so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) continues to commit systematic and widespread violence and abuses of international human rights law and humanitarian law. These acts may, in some instances, amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and possibly genocide,” the report said, using another name for ISIS.

The manner of death was equally horrifying, the report says: shooting, beheading, bulldozing, burning alive and throwing people off the top of buildings.