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THE MILITARY INTERVENTION IN AFGANISTAN - STOP THE REVENGE |
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The attack against Afghanistan represents another crime against peace and against humanity. This attack represents a part of patriarchal system of vengeance. The cycle of vengeance started with the brutal attacks on New York and Washington on September 11th 2001. This is not an attack against Osama Bin Laden, nor against his terrorist organization, this is an attack against the civilian population of Afghanistan and the whole region. All the militarists speak and act in the name of "higher national causes", and they actually misuse the interests of the nation and they threaten the fragile peace in the world. As President of the USA Bush explains, the fact that airplanes will be throwing packages containing food and medications straight after they throw each bomb, is the sign of friendship – which all together is the peak of cynicism. We know that by this, Bush wishes to prove this intervention humanitarian and moral, when he is actually justifying the increase of military budget and military expenses, as well as of military industry. The same thing is being done by the dictatorship regimes in Arab states. The civil population, as in every war, is the biggest victim. We are going out on the streets to express: - Our nonviolent protest against attacks on Afghanistan - Support, solidarity and tenderness to our Afghan sisters and friends from feminist-pacifist organization RAWA, who have been nonviolently opposing the taliban regime for years - Support for peace initiatives, especially for civil society in the Middle East, USA, Pakistan… - That we together seek the urgent end of attacks on Afghanistan. We will protest in silence and wearing black, on October 9th 2001, on the 10th anniversary of our nonviolent women’s resistance to war and militarism. We did not stop the war, but we will never stop making efforts for culture of peace and nonviolence, for global solidarity of women, for creating a world more just. We will hold a protest in Belgrade, on Republic Square, from 15:30 to 16:30. Women in Black Belgrade, October 8th 2001 |
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