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While we commemorate
the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the war in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, demanding that responsibility for the crimes committed
in that war be individualized, another equally ferocious war is
raging at the other end of the Mediterranean. Under the pretext
of anti-terrorist struggle, the Israeli army has launched large-scale
military operations in the occupied Palestinian territories, in
which civilians are the fist victims.
In solidarity with
our sisters, Women in Black from Israel and Palestine, who condemn
Israeli occupation and terror against the civilian population of
Palestine, but at the same time reject and denounce armed violence,
including violence which is being justified as a struggle for the
liberation of the Palestinian people, we demand that all belligerent
acts be stopped and that Israeli armed forces be withdrawn from
the occupied territories.
In this way, we join
the International Network of Women against War, who will express
their public protest against war and violence in the streets of
London, Rome, Madrid and dozens of other cities, on Saturday, 6th
April 2002, under the common slogan Let us globalize peace and non-violence!
We will express public
support to our sisters from Israel and Palestine and our solidarity
with the victims of armed conflicts in all war-affected areas, simultaneously
with the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the beginning
of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 6th April 2002, on Republic
Square in Belgrade, beginning at 12 p. m.
Belgrade,
4th April 2002
Women in Black
– Belgrade
Center for
Cultural Decontamination – Belgrade
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