From Voice of America:United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paid tribute to the growing number of aid workers who are being killed each year, as he inaugurated the first observance of World Humanitarian Day.
Mr. Ban placed a floral wreath before a memorial plaque in the U.N. lobby and then observed a minute of silence to honor those killed in the bombing of U.N. headquarters in Baghdad six years ago. That attack on the Canal Hotel in 2003 killed 22 people, including top U.N. envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello, and led the U.N. to substantially reduce its mission in Iraq.
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My Comment: Being an aid worker is probably one of the worse jobs in the world. You leave the comfort of your home to travel to a place that is usually hell. You are surrounded by desperation .... and the only thing that separates you from everyone else is that you have a passport that permits you to leave hell and to be able to get back home.
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