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- American aid groups defy Iraqi sanctions (CNN) -
www.cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9904/05/iraq.doctors/index.html
- BBC News: UN official blasts Iraq sanctions - The man responsible for co-ordinating the Iraqi oil-for-food deal says sanctions are killing children, destroying society and probably strengthening the country's leadership.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle%5Feast/newsid%5F183000/183499.stm
- Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq (CASI) - Site contains a large archive of news reports and discussion. It's well worth joining their busy mailing list to be kept up to date, if you have the time to go through all the messages.
www.cam.ac.uk/societies/casi/index.html
- CNN - Sick Iraqi girl headed for help - Magnusson, founder of the Icelandic charity Peace 2000 Institute, said Amal's illness exemplifies "what the sanctions have been doing to the people of Iraq."
cnn.com/WORLD/9712/28/iraq.sick.girl/index.html
- EU Hypocrisy: Banana sanctions and Iraq sanctions - ...there was the British government representative saying "It's unfair, it will damage the livelihood of innocent people who have nothing to do with the banana issue, there is an international forum for resolving such disputes but the Americans seem prepared to ignore it..."
linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/~saw27/casi/discuss/1999/170.html
- Iraq Crisis Debate in the House of Commons, Britain - Absolutely brilliant - so many good quotations! The debate is reproduced here in full.
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199899/cmhansrd/cm981125/debtext/81125-07.htm
- Iraqi children starve to death, and no-one acts - Clinton [AP, Reuters] said the inspections must go forward and that present policies - the sanctions - towards Iraq are "the right thing to do for the safety of America and the rest of the world." This is one of the most immoral and cruel decisions imaginable. Whatever else it means, it will ensure that up to 100,000 Iraqi infants and children will suffer and die before Christmas.
www.iacenter.org/cansun.htm
- List of Iraqi Sanction News Reports - Over one hundred links to articles on Iraq with most recent ones, first.
www.geocities.com/iraqinfo/index.html?page=/iraqinfo/sanctions/sarticles.html
- London Times: We deplore the murderers of British tourists, but bomb Iraqis with impunity - by Simon Jenkins.
linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/~saw27/casi/discuss/1999/178.html
- Sanctions on Iraq - a Fair Penalty? - Precis of Sabah Al-Mukhtar's talk at Cambridge University, UK
linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/~saw27/casi/events/mukhtar.html
- Sanctions on Iraq concern students - Families are selling the windows and doors off their houses just to feed their children.
collegian.ksu.edu/issues/v101/fa/n012/campus-iraq.hollis.html
- U.S. Humanitarian Organization Prosecuted for Delivering Medicine and Toys to Iraq - Since January 15, 1996, VitW has sent nineteen delegations to Iraq, in public violation of United Nations sanctions. Delegation members have delivered symbolic amounts of medicine, medical supplies and (in some cases) toys directly to public hospitals and, in some instances, to the Iraqi Red Crescent Society for distribution. Members have witnessed the devastating conditions of civilian life resulting from eight and one half years of the most comprehensive embargo in the history of the U.N.
www.nonviolence.org/vitw/htv5.html
- UN sanctions on Iraq lead to deaths of 500,000 children - From the OneWorld news service.
www.oneworld.org/news/reports/may96_iraq2.html
- UN: Concern at interruption in the flow of Iraqi oil for export - "Given the depressed price of oil and the state of Iraq's oil industry, there's currently a $900 million gap between the revenue expected and what's needed to fund the humanitarian programme. This shortfall is already cutting deeply into the allocations for water and sanitation, agriculture and education."
www.un.org/Depts/oip/background/latest/wu990302.html
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