IRAQ: IRAQIS MOVE FREELY IN STREETS OF BAGHDAD KNOWING THEY WILL NO LONGER BE SUBJECTED TO ALLIED AIR ATTACKS

Record ID: 899180

  • Title: IRAQ: IRAQIS MOVE FREELY IN STREETS OF BAGHDAD KNOWING THEY WILL NO LONGER BE SUBJECTED TO ALLIED AIR ATTACKS
  • Date: 2nd March 1991
  • Summary: BAGHDAD, IRAQ (MARCH 2, 1991) (VISNEWS) GV STREET SCENES GV BUSES AND SOLDIERS IN STREET SCU MAN READING NEWSPAPER WITH PICTURE OF SADDAM ON FRONT VARIOUS VIEWS OF FRUIT MARKET CU MAN SAYING WE WANT A JUST PEACE (ENGLISH) CU SIGN/LV RED CROSS BUILDING MV/BV RED CROSS CAR LEAVING
  • Embargoed: 6th July 2005 15:11
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Conflict,General
  • Reuters ID: LVACRGCWWCMUUWOBCLOB22KLXJOL
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3
  • Story Text: Iraqis moved freely through the streets of Baghdad on Saturday (March 2) knowing they would no longer be subjected to allied air raids, because of Thursday's ceasefire in the Gulf war.

    Some Iraqi soldiers have returned to their capital since their defeat, although Baghdad newspapers continued to boast of an Iraqi victory. Iraqis questioned in the streets said they wanted a just peace that would allow them to live in liberty.

    One returning Iraqi soldier had a particularly sad homecoming as his baby son, who was ill, died before they could get to Saddam Children's Hospital. Local doctors said an increasing number of young children are falling ill from malnourishment and lack of medication. They said that supplies of powdered milk were virtually unobtainable, because of United Nations sanctions against Iraq.

    Doctors are also concerned that standards of health and sanitation are dangerously low in Baghdad, because allied air raids damaged drains and sewers and cut electricity supplies needed to pump fresh water. With the weather turning warmer, medical experts fear that water-borne diseases, such as cholera and typhoid, will reach epidemic proportions.

    Red Cross officials are now working closely with local health officials to confront the growing problems of health and sanitation.
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