On January 15th, 1999, Martin Luther King's birthday and the eve of the eighth year since the 1991 Gulf War began, Voices in the Wilderness members began an 18 day walk from the Pentagon to the United Nations. Walkers urge the United Nations to "walk away" from war, to no longer allow US foreign policy to pervert the UN into being an instrument of warfare against Iraqi civilians. Founded to "eliminate the scourge of warfare," the UN has instead waged an eight year economic war against Iraq. UN documents state that five to six thousand children die, every month, as a direct result of UN economic sanctions.

The sanctions harm and kill the poorest, weakest and most vulnerable people in Iraq. No military or political objectives can justify a form of economic warfare that exacts such a civilian toll. International law and the U.N. charter prohibit acts of warfare that target civilian populations. The embargo amounts to the commission of a Crime Against Humanity as specified in the Nuremberg Judgment.

Call with the message "Don't bomb Iraq: Lift the Sanctions Now!"

* President Clinton (202) 456-1414

* Your Senators & Representative (202) 225-3121

Call to support the UN Secretary General's diplomatic efforts to resolve conflicts with Iraq

* Secretary General Kofi Annan (212) 903-5012

Voices in the Wilderness
A Campaign to End the U.N./U.S. Economic Sanctions Against the People of Iraq

1460 West Carmen Avenue Chicago, Il. 60640
Phone: (773) 784-8065 Fax: (773) 784-8837
E-mail: kkelly@igc.apc.org Website: www.nonviolence.org/vitw