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Stories from 2002-05-03

Afghan Mass Grave Revealed

Pam O'Toole | British Broadcasting Corporation | May 3, 2002

"Local residents have been kept away from this location and we have eyewitnesses who said they saw container trucks dumping bodies into this site ... all leads us to fear that these graves may contain possibly large numbers of Taleban prisoners," she added. [more]

US School Expels Japanese Delegation for Anti-Nuclear Fliers

STAFF | Agence France-Presse | May 3, 2002

"The delegation of 12 men and women, which included survivors of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, was initially invited to Towers High School in South DeKalb County on Wednesday to give a history lesson about the bombing. But DeKalb County school officials asked several members of the group to leave the school grounds after they were handed a flier they said the group was distributing in the Atlanta area, warning of nuclear 'destruction' and the potential use of nuclear weapons by the United States." [more]

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This website is a tribute to Why War?, one of the nation's first and most innovative post-9/11 student antiwar organizations. Born on October 22, 2001 at Swarthmore College, we were a handful of freshmen and sophmores who vocally opposed the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And now, seven years later, we are retiring this website as we focus our efforts on new directions. We hope that it continues to serve future activists and we remain confident that humanity is on the verge birthing a better world.