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Three Holy Cross alumni were among a group of 82 activists
who traveled to Iraq in May to deliver medical supplies to
that country. Christopher J. Allen-Doucot '89, Scott Schaeffer-Duffy '80,
and Margaret N. Doe '98 defied United Nations sanctions in
order to bring $4 million worth of medicine to Iraqi hospitals.
The group left the United States on May 6 and visited pediatric
wards in Baghdad and Bosrah. Iraqi medical centers, which
were considered among the finest in the Middle East prior
to the Persian Gulf War and the economic sanctions, now have
little equipment and medicine. At a press conference held
in the Hogan Campus Center, Schaffer-Duffy called the trip
an act of civil disobedience and said that economic sanctions
have killed over a million Iraqi civilians.
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Christopher J.
Allen-Doucot '89 of Hartford, Conn., Scott Schaeffer-Duffy '80 of Worcester,
and Margaret N. Doe '98 of Irving, Texas, displaying some of the medicine destined
for Iraq. |
