Dita Sari joins mission to Baghdad

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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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