More than 600 Iraqis have been killed in Fallujah since U.S. Marines began a siege against Sunni insurgents in the city a week ago, most of them women, children and the elderly, the head of the city's hospital said Sunday.  April 12, 2004

Falluja Turns Out to Bury Dead After U.S. Pullback
Victory, proclaimed by the people of Falluja when the American Marines who besieged and bombed them withdrew, often carries its own loss. With the fighting in the city mostly over, they are now free to bury their dead.
Reuters  - May 3, 2004

CPT colleagues describe massacre in Fallujah
Christian Peacemaker Teams returned Sunday from an overnight humanitarian mission to Fallujah. They describe the massacre in Fallujah.
Christian Peacemaker Teams, 4/13/04  - April 22, 2004

Deafining Silence on Fallujah Massacre
While the Western media highlights the death and "kidnapping" of paid mercenaries, on contract to Western security firms, there is a deafening silence on the massacre of more than 700 civilians in Fallujah by coalition forces.
Michel Chossudovsky  - April 22, 2004

US destroying Falluja homes
Ferocious fighting in the Iraqi town of Falluja has grown so intense that US occupation forces have begun destroying buildings and homes.
Aljazeera  - April 22, 2004

Battle for Falluja Rouses the Anger of Iraqis Weary of the U.S. Occupation
More than anything else, Falluja has become a galvanizing battle, a symbol around which many Iraqis rally their anticolonial sentiments. Some say the fighting there exposes the lie of American justice by showing that the world's sole superpower is ready to avenge the killings and mutilation of four American security contractors by sending marines to shell and invade a city of 300,000 people.
New York Times  - April 21, 2004

Fallujah Cannot Even Bury Its Dead
The story of Yusuf Fakri Amash is the story of so much of Fallujah. The 11-year-old boy just managed to escape from the town with his family. But not before the U.S. military killed his best friend.
Inter Press Service  - April 20, 2004

Losing Falluja
The deeply troubling events of the last two weeks in Iraq, including the indiscriminate killing of several hundred Iraqis by US forces in Falluja, raise serious doubts about the methods currently adopted by the coalition. The heavy-handed tactics being used bear little resemblance to peace-keeping, and far more to those of an occupying army seeking to crush all resistance.
The Guardian (UK)  - April 16, 2004

Iraq: Civilians continue to pay the price
Amnesty International remains deeply concerned at the ever mounting civilian death toll. Half of at least 600 people who died in the recent fighting between Coalition forces and insurgents in Falluja are said to have been civilians- many of them women and children.
Amnesty International  - April 14, 2004

Fallujah: a ghost town where scared residents bury their dead in their yards
The battled-scarred Sunni bastion of Fallujah west of here became a ghost town where frightened residents lived like rats, fearing to venture out, and many were forced to bury their dead in their yards.
AFP  - April 14, 2004

Witnessing Fallujah's 'Ceasefire'
I was in Fallujah during the recent "ceasefire" – the brief lull in the bloody battle secured by Iraqi leaders who are trying to negotiate a truce. This is what I saw and heard.
Rahul Mahajan, AlterNet  - April 14, 2004