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AUDIO/VIDEO: @Madison, July 25: Former UN Oil-For-Food Coordinator toIraq, Hans von Sponeck, Speaks Against Iraq Sanctions and War by Mark Douglas Whitaker 28 July 2002 15:35 UTC |
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--------------------------------------------------------------- Story from the madison.indymedia.org:8081 newswire Checkout independent media coverage of politics, protest, and life at: http://madison.indymedia.org:8081 This message was sent to you by: Mark Comments: Former Oil-For-Food Coordinator Speaks Against Iraq Sanctions and War at IMC-Madison link, there is a video link and an audio link of his recent public talk --------------------------------------------------------------- Article by: John Hamilton Friday 26 Jul 2002 Email: johnshamilton@yahoo.com Summary:Hans von Sponeck was the coordinator of the United Nations\' oil-for-food program for seventeen months, until he resigned in protest of the UN-imposed, US-backed sanctions against Iraq. He wasn\'t the first to do so; in 1998 his predecessor Dennis Halliday also resigned in protest. He spoke on July 25th in the UW-Madison Memorial Union about the terrible human cost of the sanctions, and the dangers posed by the Bush administration as it prepares another aerial bombardment of Iraq. Reference at indymedia website: http://madison.indymedia.org:8081//front.php3?article_id=6710 Article: \"As a UN official, I should not be expected to be silent to that which I recognize as a true human tragedy that needs to be ended. How long should the civilian population, which is totally innocent on all this, be exposed to such punishment for something they have never done? The very title that I hold as a Humanitarian Co-ordinator suggests I can not be silent over that which we see here. [...] My support, my commitment is for the Iraqi people as a group of deprived people whose tragedy should end.\" - Hans von Sponeck, former Humanitaian Aid Co-ordinator for Iraq, 13th February 2000.
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