Bulgarian Foreign and Defense Ministries sent the country's soldiers in Iraq as live targets, according to the mother of one of the soldiers that died in Karbala.

Mira Mihaylova, mother of Private Svilen Kirov, who died in the December 27 attack against the Bulgarian base in Karbala, said that the soldiers have signed contracts to work as peacekeepers. She pointed out that neither the preparation of the soldiers nor the pay and the insurance were conformable with the risk they faced in Iraq.

In the end of July Mira Mihaylova announced that she would start legal proceedings against the Bulgarian state.

Mihaylova accused the commanders of the first Bulgarian unit and the commandment of the Bulgarian army in culpable negligence. In the words of the devastated mother the first Bulgarian base "India" lacked the needed security measures. Mihaylova also claims that the base was destroyed in order to cover the evidence.

Four Bulgarians - Captain Georgi Kachorin, Senior Sergeant Ivan Indzhov, Junior Sergeant Anton Petrov and Private Svilen Kirov - died when a cistern loaded with explosives went off right before the camp of the 480-strong Bulgarian unit on December 27, 2003. A day later, Lieutenant Nikolay Saraev, who was very heavily wounded, died in a Baghdad hospital.

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