"Participants in the conference on 'The Liberation of Kuwait: Dawning of a New World Order?' discussed Middle East policy issues inside Old Cabell Hall yesterday as demonstrators affiliated with the 'Not One More Coffin' conference protested Iraqi sanctions on the Lawn.

The Charlottesville Coalition to Lift the Sanctions placed one black coffin on the Lawn every eight minutes to represent the rapid number of deaths that have occurred among Iraqi children since U.S. economic sanctions went into effect in 1990.


Signs reading 'Stop bombing: Sanctions Kill Kids not Saddam' and 'An Iraqi Child Dies Every 8 Minutes' covered the area outside Old Cabell Hall" (Mary Catherine Wellons, The Cavalier Daily, February 23, 2001).

On Friday, seven demonstrators were arrested at the University of Virginia "after stationing themselves onstage at the Old Cabell Hall auditorium during [the] conference on the Persian Gulf War and refusing to leave" (Eric Swensen, The Daily Progress, February 24, 2001).



Later in the day, the Charlottesville Coalition to Lift the Sanctions took to the streets, marching through Charlottesville to protest the state of the health care system in Iraq (Mary Catherine Wellons, The Cavalier Daily, February 23, 2001).

Like the snow, the tents on the Lawn have gone [see RotundaCam]. Only the protests remain.

For more, see the time lapse movie from UVa's Webcam for February 23, 2001.