The Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC) is a small aid organization working in Iraq and Afghanistan to help victims of conflict. Marla Ruzicka, the founder of the organization, and Faiz Ali Salim, the organization's Iraq country director, were killed by a car bomb explosion on April 16, 2005 in Iraq. The Republic of Iraq is a Middle Eastern country in southwestern Asia encompassing the ancient region of Mesopotamia at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. ... Afghanistan (Pashtu/Dari-Persian: Afğānistān افغانستان) is a country in Central Asia. ... Marla Ruzicka, (December 31, 1976 – April 16, 2005), of Lakeport, California, was an American Green Party activist and aid worker who was killed by a car bomb blast in Baghdad. ... April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

CIVIC works to document an accurate accounting of civilian damage and push for assistance from the US government for those harmed. In 2003, CIVIC organized 150 surveyors in Iraq to interview victims for detailed information about deaths, injuries, and property loss in an effort at that time avouched by the Guardian as the "most accurate survey" being conducted ^{[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_Innocent_Victims_in_Conflict#endnote_Guardian)}. The previous year, the group finished a similar survey in Afghanistan.

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1. ^  Rory McCarthy, "Iraq: after the war: Campaigners count bodies to ensure US compensation", The Guardian (London), May 17, 2003.