Person    | Male  Born 7/1/1949  Died 18/6/2011

Brian Haw

Brian William Haw was a protester and peace campaigner who lived for almost ten years from June 2001 in a peace camp in London's Parliament Square, in a protest against UK and US foreign policy.

Born Wanstead and grew up in  Barking and in Whitstable, Kent, where the family were involved with an evangelical Christian church. Worked as a boat-builder and carpenter and travelled widely with the merchant navy. Married in 1977.  In 2001 he began his one-man political protest against war and foreign policy (initially, the Economic sanctions against Iraq) by camping in Parliament Square.  Despite legal attacks and police visits, Haw stayed in his peace camp, sometimes with company, often alone, with a variable quantity of placards, etc. for almost 10 years, until just a few months before his death.

A lifelong smoker he died of lung cancer in Berlin, where he had gone for medical treatment.

Source: Wikipedia.

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