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Hunger strike outside White House gates for Camp Ashraf

Demonstrators and hunger strikers gather in front of the White House in Washington August 8, 2009. The rally was held in support of Iranian exiles in Camp Ashraf in Iraq who have been forcibly removed and detained by Iraqi forces, resulting in deaths and injuries.by  John Gizzi

“When will the Iraqi security forces leave Camp Ashraf? When will the United States keep their promise to protect the Iranian people who are being killed there?"

Source: Human Events, 26 August 2009
Those questions were voiced to me outside the White House yesterday by Zahra Amanpour of Jersey City, N.J. Zahra is one of fifty-or-so Iranian-American demonstrators who came from across the country and dared the August heat of Washington to show outrage over the Obama Administration’s tolerance of what they consider “a humanitarian catastrophe:” the assault by the Iraqi security forces on the 3,400 Iranians refugees of Camp Ashraf in northern Iraq.

Demonstrators and hunger strikers gather in front of the White House in Washington August 8, 2009. The rally was held in support of Iranian exiles in Camp Ashraf in Iraq who have been forcibly removed and detained by Iraqi forces, resulting in deaths and injuries.by  John Gizzi

“When will the Iraqi security forces leave Camp Ashraf? When will the United States keep their promise to protect the Iranian people who are being killed there?"

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