By TwoCircles.net staff reporter
Maryland : A protest was organized outside Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, Maryland on January 2008 to condemn the role of former U.S. Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, in the killing of 500, 000 Iraqi children. Albright was attending a program at the hall. The protestors were carrying placards condemning Albright’s role. They distributed flyers to the visitors to the hall.
Albright was Secretary of State during the regime of former President Bill Clinton. She oversaw the decade of sanctions on Iraq during which the country was denied some of the basic human essentials. More than a million Iraqis died as a result of sanctions, including 500,000 children, according to UN statistics. They were affected by water pollution, lack of medical and health facilities and dislocation of their lives. Albright not only approved of the sanctions but also the slow death of the Iraqi population. The rally went on for more than an hour.