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Wednesday 26 October 2005

INTERNATIONAL BELL TOLL PROTEST MARKS ANNIVERSARY OF IRAQI DEATHS SURVEY WITH 100,000 RINGS

LONDON: Edith Cavell Statue, St Martin's Place (just off Trafalgar Sq), 1-2pm, Saturday 29 October

A bell-tolling ceremony will take place this Saturday to mark the 1st anniversary of a survey that found that 100,000 Iraqis had died of war-related causes since the 2003 invasion.

The ceremony is one of over 70 such events taking place in the UK, US and Switzerland which aim to collectively toll 100,000 times - each ring symbolizing the death of an Iraqi person as a result of the war and occupation [B]. Saturday's event will also feature names and pictures of Iraqis killed over the past two and a half years.