| The Iraqi government announced that monthly food rations will be cut by half. The government also wants to reduce the number of people depending on the rationing system by five million by June 2008. Iraq's food rations system was introduced by the Saddam Hussein government in 1991 in response to the UN economic sanctions which killed half a million Iraqi children, and as many adults, according to the UN. |
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