Jim Pence, a retired social worker from Melbourne, Australia. I am appalled at the damage the sanctions inflict on the people of Iraq, and as a former chair of the Justice and Peace unit of the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster, I want to report what is happening in Iraq to the local churches. Prior to the sanctions, psychiatric patients were cared for according to the highest standards in the Arab world. Now, because of sanctions, psychiatric patients must be treated with medication only episodically available. No professionally trained nursing personnel are available.
Facilities are woefully inadequate.
As a member of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the president of the British Columbia branch, I have been doing every thing in my power to get Canadian people to speak out against the war and sanctions on Iraq. Magdalena Szuszkiewicz, a third-year medical student at the University of Maryland from Baltimore. I wanted to go on this mission, because it is absolutely the right thing to do. If I did not dare to stand up against injustice now, I would never have enough courage to do anything meaningful. Laurence Aboukhater, a member of the Australian Arabic Council from Melbourne, Australia.