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Iraq Sanctions Challenge Holds Protest in Baghdad

HeadlineMay 13, 1998

Iraq Sanctions Challenge delegates held an angry demonstration outside the United States interest section in downtown Baghdad yesterday. Close to a 100 delegates participated in the protest. They were demanding an end to the U.S.-led United Nations sanctions that have killed more than 1.5 million Iraqi people. Delegates chanted “U.S. hands off Iraq” and “one-two-three-four, we don’t want your racist war, five-six-seven-eight, we will not participate.” Signs and banners reading “money for tuition not war” and “end sanctions on Iraq” hung from the sides of their buses. Delegates carried protest signs from their own areas of the United States to show the diversity of the group. The group, which brought $4 million in medical aid, returns to the United States tonight. It was led by Detroit Bishop Thomas Gumbleton and former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark.

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