News stories by Gilles Michaud

  1. 20 Years Since the Canal Hotel Bombing: Protecting the People who Protect the World

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Aug 21 (IPS) - This World Humanitarian Day on 19 August, we marked 20 years since 22 of our colleagues were killed and more than 100 injured when a suicide bomber detonated a truck full of explosives outside the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, the United Nations headquarters in Iraq. This devastating blow to the UN sent shockwaves across the humanitarian community.

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