December 2003
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Events
See also:
2004 Canadian Federal Election
2004 Taiwan Presidential Election
2004 U.S. Presidential Election
Bloody Sunday Inquiry
Search for Beagle 2
Kyoto Protocol
Liberian Crisis
Same-sex Marriage
SCO v. IBM
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Road Map to Peace
North Korean Crisis
War on Terrorism
Timeline of the War in Afghanistan
(December 2003)
Occupation of Iraq
Iraq Timeline
December 1, 2003
• Occupation of Iraq:
• The firefight in which more than 50
Iraqis are reported killed is now
thought to have been an attempted
currency heist. [1]
• One GI is killed Monday in fighting
west of Baghdad. [2]
• World AIDS Day:
• US Health Secretary Tommy Thompson
warns that the world is losing the war
against AIDS. Thompson said, "We
need America, the European Union and
everybody. Nobody is going to be
spared unless we all come together in
the fight against this disease." [3]
• UK Secretary of State for International
Development Hilary Benn announces
that the UK’s funding for UNAids will
rise to GBP £6 million in 2004; this
figure compares to the UK’s projected
Iraq War-related costs of approximately
GBP £3 billion. [4]
• UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
reportedly tells the BBC that the world
is losing the war against AIDS because
governments remain indifferent to the
threat. [5]
• Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao marks
World AIDS Day by visiting AIDS
victims in a Beijing hospital. [6]
• The UN’s International Criminal Tribunal
for Rwanda hands down a life sentence to
Juvenal Kajelijeli, a former mayor of
Mukingo, for his role in the 1994 genocide
in which more than 500,000 Rwandans
were killed. [7]
• King Harald V of Norway is announced to
be suffering from cancer of the bladder;
he will be operated on next Monday,
December 8. During the King’s illness and
two to three month convalescence, Crown
Prince Haakon will be acting regent. [8]
• President Chen Shui-bian says that the
hundreds of