Coalition of American and British Nongovernmental Organizations
Letter to the United States and Great Britain
The following is excerpted from a March 17, 2008, letter from 24 American and British Nongovernmental Organizations to U.S. President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki. On the fifth anniversary of the start of allied action in Iraq, we write to express our deep concern that so little has been done by your governments to address the desperate plight of Iraqis who have been forced to flee their homes as a result of the ongoing conflict. The movement of refugees is on a scale not seen in the Middle East since 1948,…
