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Last Update: Monday, December 1, 2003. 7:27am (AEDT)
Japan Govt pressured to reject Iraq deploymentThe Japanese Government is now under enormous pressure to abandon its plan to send troops to help rebuild Iraq after two diplomats were killed there over the weekend. Katsuhiko Oku and Masamori Inoue were travelling to an aid conference in northern Iraq, when they stopped at a roadside food stall and were shot to death. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi says his government will not give in to terrorism, and has vowed to press ahead with plans to dispatch non-combat troops to help rebuild Iraq. It is a deeply unpopular policy, the opposition Democratic Party, and at least one senior member of the Government, are vowing to step up their opposition to the deployment. Only 10 per cent of the Japanese public supports the idea of sending soldiers to Iraq. |
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