![]() ![]() Following evacuation to Amman, Jordan, (February 4, 1991), team members stayed in the region for the next six months to help coordinate medical relief convoys and study teams. During 2007, she spent five months in Amman, Jordan, living amongst Iraqis who fled their homes and are seeking resettlement.ĭuring the first two weeks of the Gulf War, she was part of a peace encampment on the Iraq-Saudi border called the Gulf Peace Team. ![]() Kelly and the team stayed in Baghdad throughout the bombardment and invasion, and maintained a household in Baghdad until March, 2004. In October 2002, Voices in the Wilderness declared their intent to remain in Baghdad, alongside Iraqi civilians, throughout a war they still hoped they could prevent. Kelly has been to Iraq twenty-four times since January 1996, when the campaign began. Voices in the Wilderness organized 70 delegations to visit Iraq in the period between 1996 and the beginning of the “Operation Shock and Awe” warfare (March 2003). sanctions, she and other campaign members were notified of a proposed $163,000 penalty for the organization, threatened with 12 years in prison, and eventually fined $20,000, a sum which they’ve refused to pay. ![]() sanctions against Iraq.įor bringing medicine and toys to Iraq in open violation of the U.N./ U.S. Kathy Kelly, of Chicago, Ill., helped initiate the Voices in the Wilderness, a campaign to end the U.N./ U.S. ![]()
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