Edited for Bennett’s Study from part of and adapted from a statement by Lindsey German of
Stop the War Coalition, and other Stop the War-UK news
The slaughter of children on Sunday comes as anger against North
Atlantic Treaty Organization-member forces spreads and calls to end the decade-old
Afghanistan atrocity increase.
It is not a single individual who has done this thing; not an errant combatant
or a “mentally-unbalanced soldier on a rampage” who killed these 16 civilians —
among them nine children.
It is an entire ethos, a campaign in killing.
The United States and its allies have been “on a rampage in Afghanistan”
for more than ten years, in an endless war, an endless occupation, causing endless
slaughter.
The people of Afghanistan and a progressive vocal public in the United
States and in the United Kingdom want the U.S. and UK out of Afghanistan. The just
solution is withdrawal, now, of all foreign troops.
Today in London’s Trafalgar Square, Stop the War Coalition is holding a
demonstration in protest of “the cold blooded killing of sixteen Afghan
civilians.”
Sources and notes
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php/action-a-events/national-events/1234-monday-12-march-vigil-for-the-16-afghans-killed-by-us-soldier-in-kandahar-province
At a September 21, 2001, public meeting in London, more than 2,000
people met and formed the Stop the War Coalition.
Its aim — while condemning the attacks on New York and expressing great
compassion for those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001 — “to stop the
war declared by the United States and its allies against ‘terrorism.’”
Their reasoning: “any war will simply add to the numbers of innocent
dead, cause untold suffering, political and economic instability on a global
scale, increase racism and result in attacks on civil liberties.”
At it’s the founding, the Stop the War Coalition called “on all peace
activists and organizations, trade unionists, campaigners and labor movement organizations
to join in building a mass movement that can stop the drive to war.…
“We are committed to opposing any racist backlash generated by this war,”
they declared. “We will fight to stop the erosion of civil rights…The aims of
the campaign are best expressed in the name “Stop the War Coalition.”
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php/about/what-we-stand-for
Stop the War Coalition’s address: 1B Waterlow Road, London N19 5NJ
United Kingdom
Stop the war call Image: http://grapika.wordpress.com/
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