¡TO STOP THE WAR!

El pasado 10 de diciembre se realizó en Londres una conferencia por la paz en la que participaron más de 1.400 personas de Estados Unidos, Iraq, India, Polonia, Filipinas y otros países. Se destacó la participación de Cindy Sheehan (la madre de un soldado estadounidense muerto en Iraq, que con su acampada delante de la Casa Blanca inició el movimiento de oposición a la guerra en su país) y representantes de diversos movimientos de resistencia de Iraq. El gobierno británico impidió la entrada al país del respresentante del movimiento de Al Sadr, Hassan al Zargani. También participaron muchos exsoldados y familiares de soldados británicos.

La reunión acordó, entre otras iniciativas, organizar un fin de semana de acción contra la ocupación los días 18 y 19 de marzo, y hacer más coordinación a nivel internacional. Se aprobaron los siguientes comunicados cortos: Para más información: http://www.stopwar.org.ku


STATEMENT FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
This international conference, embracing representatives of the Iraqi, British and American and many other peoples, drawn from all parts of society, declares that the crisis caused by the invasion and occupation of Iraq is the central problem in world politics today and demands urgent resolution.

It affirms that the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was unlawful, in breach of the Charter of the United Nations and justified by the invading powers with lies designed to manipulate public opinion.
It declares that the occupation of Iraq by US and British military forces has brought misery and suffering to the people of Iraq. The occupation represents the denial of their national rights, impedes social, economic and political development and threatens the wider peace in the Middle East and the world. It has accounted for the loss of tens of thousands of lives of the Iraqi peoples, as well as more than 2,000 soldiers from the occupying armies.

This conference therefore demands an immediate end to the occupation of Iraq, as called for by the majority of the Iraqi, British and American peoples. It demands the withdrawal of the occupying military forces and the return of full sovereignty to the Iraqi people, who should be allowed to determine their own future free of external interference.

We salute the struggle of the Iraqi people for national freedom and the worldwide movement against the war and the occupation. We pledge to step up our campaign against the occupation until it is ended. To this end, we call on the anti-war movement in all countries to:
-Organise international demonstrations on March 18-19 2006, the third anniversary of the war and invasion, calling for the immediate withdrawal of troops and an end to the occupation.
- Campaign for a full international public inquiry into the assault on Fallujah last year.
- Give full support to the campaigns of military families in the US, Britain and the other occupying countries.
-Develop an international coordination from this conference to plan further events.
-Campaign against the privatisation of Iraqi oil.
-Oppose any attack on Iran or Syria.

STATEMENT (2) FROM THE INTERNATIONAL PEACE CONFERENCE
This international Peace Conference of 1,400 anti-war activists from Britain, the USA and many other countries demands the release of all illegally detained prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.
We urge the release of the four Chritian peace campaigners, Norman Kember, Tom Fox, James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden, and we ask those holding them to return them to their families unharmed.

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