Peace protester Brian Haw dies

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Brian Haw, a peace campaigner who sat outside the Houses of Parliament for a decade in protest at the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, has died aged 62.

The former carpenter died on Saturday after a long battle with lung cancer, for which he had finally to give up his vigil on Parliament Square.

Haw became a symbol of the anti-war campaign and of civil activism with his round-the-clock protest, which began on June 2, 2001 against sanctions imposed on Saddam Hussein's Iraq by his government and other Western nations.

His anger grew when Britain joined the US invasion of Afghanistan later that year following the September 11 attacks, and then the war in Iraq in 2003.

Sitting in his makeshift camp on the pavement opposite Big Ben, surrounded by banners and horrific pictures of war victims, the father-of-seven was passed by MPs and thousands of tourists every day.


"I want to go back to my own kids and look them in the face again, knowing that I've done all I can to try and save the children of Iraq and other countries who are dying because of my government's unjust, amoral, fear- and money-driven policies," he once said.




The man is the spiting image of Clint Eastwood he did not died in vain, he was against unjust wars, history will be the key.

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You'll probably find he did die in vain. Like the Soldiers putting their lives on the line we are all just a number. We all think we can make a difference but the only way you can do that is if enough of us stand together and vote the powers to be out. There's too much money to be made in wars today for them to stop.

I'm sure he meant well but I'd have thought more of him if he's supported his 7 kids, got a job and maybe got enough people together to vote those making the rules out.

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When going abroad telling some one I am British they look at me as an enemy now, we the west the law of human rights has always been a joke and as I was growing up I was telling the third world to improve the human rights record only to find out now the west have killed more humans now then the Hitler and other countries put together.

As from now every time I hear the word human rights my body shakes, Brian Haw will be remembered by the thousands of people all around the world for some thing he failed to archive in his short life.