Antiwar civil servant reports plight of Iraqi people

Antiwar civil servant reports plight of Iraqi people

OSAKA, Japan - Mamoru Toyota, a local government worker who has visited Iraq twice since the end of last year, reports on the current situation in Iraq at an antiwar rally in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on March 22. He said the number of cancer patients has increased sharply among Iraqi people and that medicine is running very short in the country. (Kyodo)

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