The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec)

April 4, 2003 Friday Final Edition
SECTION: News; Pg. A7
BYLINE: IRWIN BLOCK

Some Voices in the Wilderness have been silenced, for now.

On Tuesday, Montrealers Lisa Ndejuru, Zehira Houfani and 10 others who went to Iraq with the Iraq Peace Team felt it was time to leave.

The road trip from Baghdad to Amman, Jordan, in three vans was uneventful, and author Houfani is on her way back to Montreal. But Ndejuru, who studies religion at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal, is staying behind as a volunteer in the Iraq Peace Team, part of the Voices in the Wilderness initiative that began in 1996 to publicize the effect of economic sanctions on ordinary people. “We want to see what we can do from here to support the team still there, to get the story out,” Ndejuru said from her hotel in Amman.