Over 2.3 million Iraqis displaced in U.S. invasion
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Very sad...
Also see this.
Kofi Annan interview: Text
BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Kofi Annan interview: Text
The outgoing UN secretary general Kofi Annan gave his last BBC interview to Lyse Doucet. He is due to step down on 31 December when he will be succeeded by South Korea's foreign minister Ban Ki-moon. Below is an excerpt from the interview:
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BBC: Was it a mistake? Some Iraqis say that life is worse than it was under a dictator.
Kofi Annan: I think they are right in the sense of the average Iraqi's life. If I were an average Iraqi obviously I would make the same comparison, that they had a dictator who was brutal but they had their streets, they could go out, their kids could go to school and come back home without a mother or father worrying, "Am I going to see my child again?" And the Iraqi government has not been able to bring the violence under control.
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Also see this.
Kofi Annan interview: Text
BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Kofi Annan interview: Text
The outgoing UN secretary general Kofi Annan gave his last BBC interview to Lyse Doucet. He is due to step down on 31 December when he will be succeeded by South Korea's foreign minister Ban Ki-moon. Below is an excerpt from the interview:
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BBC: Was it a mistake? Some Iraqis say that life is worse than it was under a dictator.
Kofi Annan: I think they are right in the sense of the average Iraqi's life. If I were an average Iraqi obviously I would make the same comparison, that they had a dictator who was brutal but they had their streets, they could go out, their kids could go to school and come back home without a mother or father worrying, "Am I going to see my child again?" And the Iraqi government has not been able to bring the violence under control.
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