[syndicate] international appael against the war in Afganistan

[clement Thomas - pavu.com]

the battle is ending.
Talibans down by northern alliance (flesh).

Now the question is :
who will occupy the land.
It sounds strange to me to see european gvts invited to share the cake with the burning
bush...
[ but I suppose that it is his decision ]

anyway :
ready for the harvesting ?

--
OG

Claudia Westermann a *crit :

> German parliament will decide on Friday, if they will send troups to
> Afghanistan
> ( not before Christmas naturally - calming people ).
> Schroeder proposed a vote of confidence ( 4th time in republic's history )
> and relates it to the question of sending troups or not.
> There are 334 votes needed. The governmental coalition has 341 votes. So
> will there be enough voices saying 'no' ? ( this would mean the end of the
> coalition.  A few days ago, there were 8 'no' voices )
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> http://www.medico-international.de/
>
> Frankfurt/Main (Germany) 14th November 2001
>
> International Appeal against the war in Afganistan
> International Appeal
>
> of Nobel Prize Laureates, Poets, Philosophers, Intellectuals and Human
> Rights Defenders
> FOR AN IMMEDIATE END TO THE WAR AGAINST AFGANISTAN
>
> Military measures intended to support the arrest of a terrorist have turned
> into a large-scale attack on one of the poorest countries in the world, as
> well as on its population, which is tormented by hunger and poverty and
> threatened by uprooting and death.
> As little as the gap between rich and poor in the world was the cause of
> the murderous attack on Sept.11, all the more are the attacks against
> Afghanistan deepening this gap and thereby multiplying reasons to hate the
> West and its civilization. In the future the West will be less identified
> with its best qualities, with democracy, a constitutional order and
> prosperity than with its shadowy sides, with a lack of respect, arbitrary
> acts and violence.
> With every bomb that falls and every western soldier who kills on Afghan
> soil, the rich part of this world closes its eyes to the suffering of the
> peoples in the south. Even the appearent successes presently do not change
> this. With its offensive the West is not only undermining the idea of a
> collective legal effort to counteract terror, but is also betraying its own
> principles. In the final analysis this undeclared war is no longer being
> waged to combat terrorism but rather to preserve a reputation of military
> invincibility. Finally, with every day that war is waged there and with
> every new security law passed here (in the western world) , that very
> freedom which is supposedly being defended is threatened and those
> refugees, who are the products of this military action and its
> consequences, are marginalized.
> On September 11, not only did thousands of people suffer an agonising
> death, but even western civilization suffered a defeat. Those murdered in
> the attack will not be restored to life through the war against the
> Taliban. With every day of war the risk of a still greater moral and
> political disaster increases. It is still possible to learn from the
> failures experienced up to now. There is still a chance to return to
> negotiations and to reach a political solution which attempts to
> reestablish a legal order and to provide for justice and social equality in
> Afghanistan and in the world.
> 13th November, Frankfurt (Germany)
>
> First Signatories:
>
> José Saramago (Portugal, Nobel Prize in Literatur 1998) - Günter Grass
> (Germany, Nobel Prize in Literature 1999) - Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
> (Argentina, Nobel Peace Prize 1980) - Rigoberta Menchú Tum (Guatemala,
> Nobel Peace Prize 1992) - José Ramos-Horta (East Timor, Nobel Peace Prize 1996)
> Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa'îd Esbir) (France/Lebanon) - Orhan Pamuk (Turkey) -
> Mahmoud Darwisch (Palestine) - Ogaga Ifowodo (Nigeria) - Harold Pinter
> (Great Britain) - Faraj Sarkohi (Iran)- Juan Villoro (Mexico) - Abdourahman
> A. Waberi (Djibouti/France) - Sean McGuffin (Ireland) - Christa Wolf (Germany)
> Uri Avnery (Israel) - Monseñor Samuel Ruiz García (Mexico) - Danielle
> Mitterrand (France-Liberté, France) - Dr. Paz Rojas Baeza (CODEPU, Chile) -
> Akin Birdal (Human Rights Defender, Turkey) - Dr. Jean Ziegler (Delegate of
> Suisse to the United Nations) -Günter Gaus (Germany)
> Prof. Giorgio Agamben (Italy) - Prof. Neville Alexander (South Afrika) -
> Prof. Francis A. Boyle (USA) - Prof. Judith Butler (USA) - Prof. Hajo Funke
> (Germany) - Prof. Axel Honneth (Germany) - Prof. Walter Jens (Germany) -
> Prof. Steve Lukes (Great Britain/Italy) - Prof. Jean-Luc Nancy (France) -
> Prof. Bertrand Ogilvie (France)
> This international appeal was initiated by the german, Frankfurt based, non
> governemental organisation medico international (Nobel Peace Prize for the
> Campaign against Land Mines 1997). The author is Prof. Micha Brumlik,
> University of Frankfurt (Germany).
>
> Der Deutsche Bundestag entscheidet jetzt, ob Deutschland zum ersten Mal
> nach der Kapitulation vom 8. Mai 1945 an einem Krieg teilnehmen wird,
> dessen politische Ziele nicht im mindesten definiert sind und der auch
> nicht mehr vom Hauch einer humanitären Legitimation gedeckt ist. Wir, die
> Initiatoren dieses internationalen Aufrufes, bitten die Abgeordneten des
> Deutschen Bundestages, dem Eintritt Deutschlands in diesen Krieg ihre
> Zustimmung zu verweigern. Ein Krieg, der mit der vermeintlichen Wende im
> aktuellen Verlauf nicht beendet ist.
>
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