Human Shield Britons Leave Iraq
Date: Sunday, March 02 @ 15:59:01 GMT
Topic: In the News
March 2, 2003 from the BBC:
Up to 20 Britons who travelled to Iraq to form a human shield against military action are returning home amid safety fears. The anti-war campaigners are on their way back to London in the double-decker buses which took them to Baghdad last month.
About 12 other Britons will stay on as part of the 200-strong international Truth Justice Peace Human Shield Action Group.
Their role is now to "protect" humanitarian sites and act as witnesses to the war, rather than as human shields.
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