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EYEWITNESS REPORT BACK ON THE SANCTIONS WAR AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ voices in the wilderness uk PUBLIC MEETING Eyewitness report on the effects of sanctions (with slides) 7.30 pm, Thursday 10th June in the Small Hall at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1 (nearest tube Holborn) “It was clear to me that the situation in Iraq was as bad now as it was last August ... Hospitals are still filled with children dying of starvation and disease. In supporting sanctions the British Government must share the responsibility for these deaths" - August ’98 and May ’99 voices delegate Andrea Needham The economic sanctions against Iraq - coupled with the massive infrastructural damage done during the 1991 Gulf War - have had a horrific effect upon the civilian population of Iraq. According to the former UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator for Iraq, Denis Halliday, over 4000 Iraqi children are dying every month due to the impact of sanctions. Last month three members of the sanctions-breaking organisation voices in the wilderness uk broke the economic sanctions against Iraq by hand-delivering medical supplies to Iraqi children’s hospitals. This was the third voices uk delegation to break the sanctions. The maximum penalty for sanctions-breaking is five years imprisonment. For more information contact voices in the wilderness uk, 12 Trinity Road, London N2 8JJ (tel. 0181 - 444 1605) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To be removed/added, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk, NOT the whole list. Archived at http://linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/~saw27/casi/discuss.html