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Hi CASI:
I have just emailed this to The Guardian regarding Martin
Woollacott's depressingly inaccurate article today. Please
send in other letters too.
Best wishes
Eric Herring
Dear Editor:
Martin Woollacott's article ('Iraq's Devastation is due to
Saddam, not sanctions', 23 February) flies in the face of
ten years of UN reports. For example, in March 1999 the
UN's Humanitarian Panel reported that 'regardless of the
improvements that might be brought about in the
implementation of the current humanitarian programme ...
the magnitude of the humanitarian needs is such that they
cannot be met within the context of the parameters set
forth in [existing UN] resolution[s]... the humanitarian
situation in Iraq will continue to be a dire one in the
absence of a sustained revival of the Iraqi economy, which
in turn cannot be achieved solely through remedial
humanitarian efforts.'
Yours,
Dr. Eric Herring
University of Bristol
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Dr. Eric Herring
Department of Politics
University of Bristol
10 Priory Road
Bristol BS8 1TU
England, UK
Tel. +44-(0)117-928-8582
Fax +44-(0)117-973-2133
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Politics
eric.herring@bristol.ac.uk
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