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Protest 10th anniversary of the Gulf war and 10 years of sanctions
Assemble at Central Bank, Dame Street Saturday Jan. 27th at 3 PM
Speakers include: Patricia McKenna (Green Party, MEP); Michael D.
Higgins (Labour Party);
Joe Higgins (Socialist Party, TD); Michael Birmingham
(Campaign
to End Iraq Sanction)
Iraqi speaker; Palestinian speaker; Rory McDaid
(Equality Officer, USI);
Richard Boyd Barrett (Socialist Workers Party)
End the Sanctions on Iraq!
It's ten years since the US and it's allies declared war against Iraq.
During
'Operation Desert Storm' more than 88,5000 tons of explosives were
dropped on Iraq.
This massive bombing operation was primarily a war against civilian
life.
The Gulf war alone killed more than 100,000 people but it also left the
basic
infrastructure of Iraqi society in tatters.
In the decade since the end of the war the UN sanctions have prevented
Iraqi life from
returning to normal. So far 1,5 million men, women and children have
died as a direct result
of the sanctions. Over half a million were children under 5 years old.
"Iraq's children are dying at the rate of 6,000 a month--one every eight
minutes in the
name of we, the people of the United Nations. "Denis Halliday (Ireland's
former UN
Humanitarian Co-ordinator for Iraq, who resigned in 1998 and
anti-sanctions campaigner)
is right when he says history will slaughter those responsible."
(Felicity Arbuthnot, journalist)
Join the protest to put an end to this terrible injustice.
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