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A humanitarian crisis.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-MAR-03
Format: Online - approximately 661 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A humanitarian crisis.(Editorials)(Massive relief effort needed to help Iraqi people)(Editorial)

Article Excerpt
Byline: The Register-Guard

The first shipments of humanitarian relief have reached southern Iraq from Kuwait and Jordan, a small beginning for the immense humanitarian aid effort that will be necessary to counter the death, starvation, disease and homelessness that war will inflict on Iraqi civilians.

As the recent conflict in Afghanistan showed with stark and painful clarity, keeping civilian populations supplied with food, water, medicine and shelter is of paramount importance.

A recent confidential U.N. planning report predicts that ``the collapse of essential services in Iraq could lead to a humanitarian emergency of proportions well beyond the capacity...

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