VIA THE WAR!
It was 2006 when the Arch, along with other associations, academics, experts and information promoted Afghan - a path to peace and justice in Afghanistan. The call contained a serious and viable plan aimed at achieving a rapid strong UN initiative to ensure the protection of civilians and a participatory and inclusive peace process. Four years have passed. Western countries, together with Italy, have preferred to continue to work towards a military subordinate to the war open to the Taliban-led United States. Yesterday we marched together with representatives of Afghan civil society from Perugia to Assisi. And with conviction today boosted the appeal that comes from the Table of Peace:
"The war we are waging in Afghanistan has given us this morning others mangled bodies of Italian soldiers. More dead, more wounded, more pain, more blood that force everyone to re-open our eyes to this tragedy.'s death, the pain and the blood flowing every day in Afghanistan, but to us (our media, first of all) is just the impression Italian blood. And it's a shame which adds to the shame of the war.
of this war Italians know almost nothing. Here in Italy, in the rear of the war, we are under the iron regime of censorship. Here (as in no other country in the world), 11 September 2001 is even forbidden to call a spade a spade. The term "war in Afghanistan" is banned. But all this does not help us figure out what to do. "Any propaganda for war shall be prohibited by law. Any advocacy of national hatred, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence shall be prohibited by law. " Article 20 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ratified by Italy in 1977)
The pain of the families of soldiers killed and the anguish of those seriously injured is also ours. It 's a sharp pain that should prompt us to do more to stop and not continue to fight this war. Our young soldiers are dying because the military government continues to pass on the task of solving a problem that the military have no chance of solving. why the monster of war goes on for nine years to make carnage of human lives, legality, law and rights.
Italy must get out of this war. Now.
Italy must abandon the path of war and work to build a political alternative to war without limits. The exit strategy is one we must pass from military to political and civil side of the victims of decades of war, oppression and poverty. We need to support the Afghan civil society that is committed to respect for human rights, reconstruction and reconciliation (the most important lever of democracy in Afghanistan). We need to increase significantly the actions of cooperation in order to meet the vital needs of population.c have asked these days in Perugia Najla Ayubi also coordinating with Afghan Woman Network Narmgui and Abdul Khalil, president of an association of Afghan journalists . With them we marched from Perugia to Assisi and we can not keep quiet.
to Parliament asking immediately to convene a special session dedicated to war in Afghanistan, the review of Italy's political and urgent actions to be taken at national and international levels.
to RAI public service , and the whole world of information, we ask to hold a serious debate on the war in Afghanistan to help the Italians to understand what happened, what is happening and how we can continue to avoid to cry no avail.
We want to be invited to speak not only the military and so-called "experts" but also the peacemakers, those who yesterday attended the Peace March from Perugia to Assisi, those who work every day to avoid these senseless slaughter ".
We want to be invited to speak not only the military and so-called "experts" but also the peacemakers, those who yesterday attended the Peace March from Perugia to Assisi, those who work every day to avoid these senseless slaughter ".
