>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "International"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Iraq Sanctions Challenge >39 West 14th St., #206 >New York, NY 10011 >Voice: 212-633-6646 >Fax: 212-633-2889 >Web page: www.iacenter.org >e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Contact: Deirdre Sinnott, > Kenneth MacLeish > (212) 633-6646 >FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > >THOUSANDS MARCH IN BAGHDAD ON ANNIVERSARY OF BOMBING > >January 17, 2000 � The Iraq Sanctions Challenge (ISC) >accompanied thousands of energetic and militant >protesters in Baghdad today in a march commemorating the >ninth anniversary of the beginning of the U.S. war on >Iraq. > >The protesters, many of whom have experienced the >devastation of the Gulf War, the sanctions and the >continued bombing of Iraq first-hand, chanted �Down, >down, U.S.A.,� burned U.S. flags, and carried a coffin >draped in U.S., British and Israeli flags. Protesters >also chanted, �Clinton Bush Albright, you can�t hide, >sanctions equal genocide.� > >The demonstration included many students from around the >Middle East and Africa including Lebanon, Morocco, Sudan >and Somalia, who are able study at no cost in Iraq. The >students report widespread public opposition throughout >the Arab World to U.S. policy towards Iraq. A Spanish >delegation of 120 member from the Campaign to Lift the >Embargo on Iraq also participated in the demonstration. > >Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, the head of >the ISC, said, �The sanctions are genocide, they weaken >and permanently debilitate the strongest of a society and >kill the weakest and most vulnerable.� Infant and child >mortality, along with other standard indicators of poor >public health, have risen sharply in Iraq since 1990. And >in a communiqu� from Iraq, ISC delegate Sarah Sloan >pointed out that �the anti-imperialist sentiment at this >demonstration shows why the U.S. is intent on continuing >the war against Iraq through sanctions, bombing and >covert action.� > >The delegation is spending five days in Iraq. Before >today�s demonstration, they visited the Amariyah shelter, >a bunker destroyed by U.S. bombs during the Gulf War, >killing over a thousand Iraqi civilians who had sought >shelter inside. Tomorrow the delegation will meet with >Sa�dun Hammadi, the Speaker of the Iraqi National >Assembly, Tariq Aziz, the Deputy Prime Minister, and the >minister of History and Archaeology. Delegates will also >be visiting hospitals, grade schools and universities, a >water treatment plant, and the city of Mosul in northern >Iraq. The ISC will return to New York, JFK Airport on >January 21. > >For more information on the ISC and the UN sanctions, >please visit our Website at www.iacenter.org > > --30-- > > >------- End of forwarded message ------- __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
