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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 24. Oktober 2004 / Time Line October 24, 2004

23. Oktober, 25. Oktober

10/24/2004
FN-dagen.

10/24/2004
Protesters Pay Tribute to Fallen Troops
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1024-03.htm
WASHINGTON - A small group of war protesters paid tribute to the troops who died in Iraq by setting up more than 1,100 flag-draped cardboard coffins in front of the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday.
More than 1,100 flag-draped symbolic coffins line the reflecting pool at the base of the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2004 in Washington. The tribute is in honor of the American service men and women who have been killed in Iraq to date. In the background is the Washington Monument. The coffins stretched halfway down each side of the reflecting pool. At 1 p.m., members of the Iraq War Memorial Coalition read the names of the people who were killed and then played taps.
Pat Elder, who helped organize the event, said the 75-member coalition was formed two weeks ago by people who belonged to the Quaker faith, Veterans for Peace and Military Families Speak Out.

10/24/2004
Den prominente whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg besøger København fra den 24. til den 28. oktober 2004, hvor han med fokus på Vietnam-krigen og Irak-krigen vil fortælle om whistleblowing som nødvendig sikkerhedsventil i et demokratisk samfund.
Under sit besøg i København vil Daniel Ellsberg deltage i et læsermøde med Frank Grevil i Politikens Hus den 25. oktober kl. 17-19, og et holde et foredrag med Frank Grevil på RUC den 26. oktober kl. 15.30 - 17.

10/24/2004
Rebellion in northern Uganda 'is worse than Darfur war'
By David Blair, Africa Correspondent
The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/23/wugan23.xml
A guerrilla war in northern Uganda, where 20,000 children have been taken captive be brutal rebels, is the world's worst "neglected humanitarian emergency", the United Nations said yesterday.
Jan Egeland, the UN's under-secretary for humanitarian affairs, described the insurgency waged by the Lord's Resistance Army for the past 18 years as a "moral outrage".
After briefing the UN Security Council in New York, Mr Egeland said: "Northern Uganda to me remains the biggest neglected humanitarian emergency in the world."
Devoid of any popular support, the LRA resorts to abducting children, then brainwashing and brutalising them for use as soldiers and sex slaves.
The number of children kidnapped has doubled in the past two years and at least 1.6 million people - virtually the entire rural population of northern Uganda - have been forced to flee their homes and move to squalid refugee camps.

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