Surf these sites: Banning Child Sacrifice - A Difficult Choice? -- By Kathy Kelly. "Repeatedly, the US media describes Iraq''s plight as ''hardship.'' Video footage and still photographs show professors selling their valuable books. Teenage students hawking jewelry in the market are interviewed about why they aren''t in school. These are sad stories, but they distract us from the major crisis in Iraq today, the story still shrouded in secrecy. This is the story of extreme cruelty, a story of medicines being withheld from dying children. It is a story of child abuse, of child sacrifice, and it merits day to day coverage." Little hope for some Iraqi children as sanctions take their toll -- Ken From returned from Iraq recently with haunting memories and photos he took in a Baghdad hospital of children who will probably die soon because United Nations sanctions have restricted the flow of medicines into Iraq. "There isn''t a parent in the world who could come away and not be moved to tears by what''s happening there." Salt on the Wound -- A photo essay by Alan Pogue, from the Texas Observer. "The photographs provide a partial record of the effects of eight years of sanctions and intermittent attacks by the U.S., Britain, and other Western powers. The photographs also serve as an introduction for American readers to the ordinary people of Iraq, since the mainstream U.S. media have been largely content to portray Iraq and the government of Saddam Hussein as one and the same." Suffer the little children -- by George Capaccio, who faced imprisonment and $1m fines by daring to travel to Iraq. A really moving article. Please read it. Voices in the Wilderness - Voices From the Journal -- VitW has so far made 18 visits to Iraq to deliver much-needed medicine, in violation of the sanctions. These are their harrowing reports.
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