Relief Workers and Volunteers Killed in Iraq

Relief Workers and Volunteers who have been Killed in Iraq

[marked with + if someone has committed to make a quilt square for them]

	2003 April
	8 April
+	Vatche Arslanian, 47	Red Cross International Committee (ICRC) delegate From Oromocto, New Brunswick	Shot dead in Baghdad.
	13 people		Killed in same incident.
	August
	Red Cross staffmembers	Baghdad
	7 August
	10 people	Jordanian embassy in Baghdad	bomb
	23 UN workers, including Sergio Vieira de Mello, the top U.N. envoy in Iraq.	Baghdad	truck bomb
	2004
+ (for translator)	two international relief workers and their translator	Hilla, in central Iraq	possibly targeted for working on women's projects
	March
	15 March
+	Jean Dover Elliott, 58	working on water purification project and delivering relief supplies for the Southern Baptist International Mission Board in northern Iraqi city of Mosul	killed by automatic weapons fire in the shooting while travelling in a vehicle
+	Larry Elliott, 60	delivering relief supplies for the Southern Baptist International Mission Board in northern Iraqi city of Mosul	killed by automatic weapons fire in the shooting while travelling in a vehicle
+	Karen Denise Watson, 38	working on water purification project and delivering relief supplies for the Southern Baptist International Mission Board in northern Iraqi city of Mosul	killed by automatic weapons fire in the shooting while travelling in a vehicle
	David McDonnall, 28 (wife, Taylor McDonnall, 26, wounded) of Rowlett, TX	working on water purification project and delivering relief supplies for the Southern Baptist International Mission Board in northern Iraqi city of Mosul	killed by automatic weapons fire in the shooting while travelling in a vehicle
	November
+	Margaret Hassan, 59	Irish, living in Iraq for 30 years; director of Care International's Iraq operations, stationed in Baghdad	Vocal in her opposition to the US invasion. Kidnapped and killed by unknown group. "For the past 30 years, Margaret worked tirelessly for the Iraqi people . . . Margaret had only goodwill towards everyone. She had no prejudice against any creed. She dedicated her whole life to working for the poor and vulnerable, helping those who had no one else." Statement from Michael, Deirdre, Geraldine and Kathryn Fitzsimons, brothers and sisters of Margaret Hassan.