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Special envoys show Iraq 10 years after the American invasion.
In 2003, Sérgio Dávila (at the right), the current executive-editor of Folha,
and Juca Varella, photographer, were the only Brazilian journalists in Iraq.
10 years after, they went looking for the survivors
of an attack to a Shiite market in Baghdad, which was hit at beginning of the war.
Iraq: the search for an afterwards
On the 29th Mars 2003, 55 people died from an explosion in the Al Shola market, in the suburbs of Baghdad.
We thought it had been a missile, or a bomb, hitting a wrong target, a civil target, since it was a market.
But now the locals are saying it was an Iraqi plane that was passing by and was hit.
And we are trying to find some of the survivors that were in our picture 10 years ago.
Even though the war is over and the American troops left the country, explosions are still going on across town.
This seems to be a regular soccer field, but it's actually the setting of a tragedy that happened on the 28th February.
Here, Shiite kids were playing soccer when a suicidal man, with a bomb, got in
and exploded himself right at the middle of the game, killing 24 young people.
There has just been an explosion over there!
During the last 19th Mars, the 10th anniversary of the American invasion, the explosions across the country killed 50 people.
It's the morning of the 19th mars 2013. It is the 10th anniversary of the Iraqi invasion.
And a dozen of, apparently coordinated, explosions of bomber men and car bombs are taking place in the city.
While we were here recording two explosions that had already happened,
that other one just happened, near to what seems to be the Green Zone.
We have the information that other two checkpoints
near the Green Zone, which is the Iraqi's government headquarters, were also hit.
And here, on my other side, we can see two explosions that had already happened,
with the smoke already fading.
Over 4000 American soldiers and 100 thousand Iraqi civilians died in this conflict that seems endless.