Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia: Imprisoned for Opposing Iraq War

Design: SCW Camilo was sent to Iraq with the Florida Army National Guard in April 2003. The prison abuse he witnessed and the inhumanity of the war/occupation prompted his refusal to return to Iraq after a leave. One of the first Iraq war resisters imprisoned, he did nine months and was released 2/05.

Fall 2007, Camilo was elected Chair of the Iraq Veterans Against the War Board, www.ivaw.net, phone 213.241.7123