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Article: Relief workers in the line of fire Politicizing aid
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- International Herald Tribune
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- August 5, 2004
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John S. Burnett
International Herald Tribune
08-05-2004
At some point, the killing has to stop or effective humanitarian relief work as we know it today will never be the same. Relief workers are being murdered at an alarming rate because of a perceived lack of neutrality, because they are regarded as extensions of a donor nation's political and military agendas. On the eve of the anniversary of the bombing of the United Nations compound in Baghdad, which killed 22 relief workers, it is disturbing to note that civilian humanitarian workers, as never before, have become fair game because their fiercely held neutrality long enshrined in international law is no longer taken seriously. Since ...