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| Afghanistan |
| Mary Robinson demands bombing stop right now, dammit |
| 2001-10-12 |
United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson, speaking after the world body won the Nobel Peace Prize, called for a suspension of the air strikes in order to provide aid to hungry civilians before the onset of winter. "All I can say is there is a desperate situation for hundreds of thousands -- perhaps up to two million -- of the Afghan civilian population who desperately need food," she said. "It is absolutely wrong that 6,000 people were killed in the terrible events of September 11 but equally we must have regard for the population in Afghanistan," she told Irish state radio. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |