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Article: Pressure increases to lift Iraq sanctions.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- August 3, 2000
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WASHINGTON _ Opponents of U.S.-backed economic sanctions against Iraq, including some veterans of Operation Desert Storm, will descend on Washington this weekend to urge that the sanctions be lifted.
They contend that hardships caused by the sanctions have contributed to the deaths of an estimated 1 million Iraqis, half of them children younger than 5. Some of the estimated 3,000 to 5,000 demonstrators are threatening civil disobedience to advance their argument that the sanctions have caused a humanitarian crisis while failing to unseat Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
The United States succeeded in getting the United Nations to implement sanctions against ...