American Views Abroad

 
The Los Angeles Times reports on War's Iraqi Death Toll Tops 50,000 -- Higher than the U.S. estimate but thought to be undercounted, the tally is equivalent to 570,000 Americans killed in three years. www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0625-03.htm.

An initiative has started in Hamburg, according to a local newspaper, to protect children in wartime. The idea called the 'Hamburger Erklaerung' will be officially proclaimed on Friday, June 30 and the aim is to declare certain cities and other areas where civilians live off-limits to destruction in wartime. A further aim is to have this declaration added on to the Geneva Convention. Until now the plight of children caught up in the bombings and fighting of war has not received the attention it deserves. More information in German at Kinder besser vor Kriegen schuetzen at
www.abendblatt.de/daten/2006/06/26/578413.html.
- posted by Gloria @ 7:07 PM