| Description | Folder of presscuttings, telex reports and other papers relating to shortages of food and medicine caused by UN sanctions against Iraq, and its effect on the population, especially children. These include a Baghdad Observer article (13 October 1991) on 'Promises for children forgotten', reports of US Congress concerns over Iraqi child mortality (Arab Times, 23 October 1991), similar articles from Le Monde and El Moudjahid, cuttings from the Independent and Telegraph on medical shortages, and some detailed press reports from during the war about the tangible effects of these shortages inside Iraq. |