Dita Sari joins mission to Baghdad

BY
IGGY KIM

Dita Sari, head of the Indonesian National Front for Workers' Struggle,
was in Baghdad on March 14-18 as part of high-profile Asian peace mission
to Iraq. Mission members visited hospitals, orphanages and schools. They
met with a wide range of Iraqi civilians. The mission was an act of solidarity
and opposition to the impending war.

The other members of the delegation were Walden Bello, executive director
of Focus on the Global South; Hussin Amin and Loretta Rosales, members
of the Philippines House of Representatives; Jaran Ditapichai, Thailand's
national human rights commissioner; Zulfiqar Gondal, a Pakistani member
of parliament; and Admiral Laxminarayan Ramdas, the former chief of the
Indian navy. A documentary film crew accompanied the mission.

The mission will issue a report and members will embark on speaking
tours to publicise their findings.

From Green Left Weekly, March 19, 2003.

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