FROM EMBARGO TO EXILE
Road to Calvary for Iraq’s Christians
A year after Operation Desert Fox, the UN Security Council has adopted a new resolution on Iraq. The abstention by three of its permanent members - France, Russia and China - emphasises that it was essentially an Anglo-American decision. At whatever cost the United States is determined to maintain a murderous embargo. In these circumstances the cancellation of Pope Jean-Paul II’s visit is causing vast disappointment, especially among Iraq’s Christians.
by Hana Jaber and
It is a long way to Ur. Four hundred kilometres through the heart of rural Iraq, along the road between Baghdad and An-Nasiriyah. Palm groves are scattered across a land so water-logged that there are small marshes all along the roadside. It is a land left fallow, abandoned, in spite of its (...)
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