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New Zealand Human Shield Volunteer Deploys to Electricity Plant in Baghdad
Tuesday, March 4th, 2003

Hundreds of Human Shield volunteers from over 30 countries are converging in Baghdad. This week they have started deploying to strategic sites that are key to avoiding mass civilian casualties in the event of a U.S. lead bombing campaign.

Hawke’s Bay man and Human Shield volunteer, Christiaan Briggs, deployed to the Daura Electricity Plant in Baghdad on Monday. The facility is the biggest plant in Iraq; it’s located in central Baghdad and supplies water plants and around 2 million people with electricity.

Under international law, to which the U.S. is party, it is a war crime to harm or destroy facilities that provide essential services to the civilian population.

“This site was targeted by the U.S. in the 1991 Gulf War. If it is hit once again it will be the spreading of disease and lack of water that will so shamefully hit the children and poor yet again,” said Mr Briggs.

“I’m prepared to die but only because I’m not prepared to stand by while others are murdered in my name when I know I can do something about it.

“It is delusional to believe that bombing the Iraqi people, killing thousands and possibly hundreds of thousands in the process, is going to make the world a better place.

“This war has nothing to do with humanitarian concerns or weapons of mass destruction and everything to do with oil and the continuing expansion of U.S. global domination, and people know it. The challenge for us all is to realise that we as ordinary citizens can actually do something about it,” said Mr Briggs

For more details about the Truth Justice Peace Human Shield Action Iraq see humanshields.org

Christiaan can be contacted in Baghdad at the Palestine International Hotel, Human Shield office on 00-964-1-816 4400 ext. 4666 (or in room 1018 or 1017), or at the Daura Electricity Plant on , or at the Daura Oil Refinery on 00-964-1-775 0300 ext. 4337. Messages can also be left at the Human Shield office.

To obtain photos taken by Christiaan Briggs in Iraq or of the bus tour to Baghdad contact Liam Nicholls of TNT Magazine, London at 0044 20 7341 6646 or 0044 7 900 977 791 or piceditor@tntmag.co.uk or see www.tntmagazine.com/humanshield