WOMEN IN BLACK
Italy is a country at war
not be fought on our soil, but is in place the mechanism of war with all that that entails: increasing military spending, militarization of the territory and minds. The involvement of Italy
military intervention in Afghanistan began in late 2001 they work for the accession to the mission ISAF with the character of "security assistance" and the sending of 350 soldiers.
was to last "at least six months" and cost "tens of billions of lire." Instead
been nearly 10 years.
The mission of "peacekeeping" has become a mission of war, the UN leadership was passed to NATO with a coup in 2003 that light from the weapon of assault, from "read the rules of engagement" to rules increasingly heavy initial military from 350 to 1000 of 2003 up to 3900 of 2010 and 4200 today.
beginning of the mission, the total cost was 3 billion 100 million euro, and continues to cost 65 million € per month.
The refinancing of the military is now every six months so bipartisan, with some exceptions, in violation of Article. 11 of the Constitution.
All this without ever re-discuss in Parliament achievements, successes and failures.
E 'success in February.
Only for the mission in Afghanistan for the first six months of 2011 has been allocated € 410 million (2.26 million per day), while more and more skimpy is the financing for reconstruction projects and assistance (16 million in just six months ).
In the face of ferocious cuts to school, culture, science, health, local authorities and the Environment, in Italy we see the field of armaments and military expenditure does not ever suffer any reduction, contrary to what happens in other European countries.
Since 2006 in Italy there was an increase in military spending by 28% and for 2011 is expected to further increase of 8, 4%. Added to this are funds for the Ministry of Development, but, to new weapons systems, which add up to € 1.5 billion for military missions abroad. The total
then reach the 24.3 billion euro. Among the projects funded is also the purchase of 131 F35 fighter-bombers at a cost of € 16 billion and that of ten frigates at a cost of 5.6 billion euro. The war in
Afghanistan is part of the strategic concept of NATO, as defined in the Lisbon summit on November 20 of 2010, which is increasingly nell'inglobare member countries and intervene when their interests are "threatened", thereby creating a form of world domination and a continuous threat to peace. We
Women in Black have always been against the war, so even against the military intervention in Afghanistan.
now denounce the failure of all initial objectives DECLARED:
FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM, SECURITY AND BRING DEMOCRACY,
liberate Afghan women.
The reality is quite different: the Taliban have regained control of the two thirds of the country, Karzai was elected with the fraud, the conflict has spread to Pakistan, and opium warlords in control, poverty now affects 80% of the population, the increase in opium production now reached 93% of everything produced in the world, rampant corruption, the lives of women has deteriorated to the point that the suicides have increased to unprecedented levels (women between 18 and 35 years for setting fire to escape the unbearable violence their fate).
The Karzai government has reintroduced the "Ministry of Vice and Virtue" and has signed a law that Shiite women can not refuse sexual intercourse with her husband, can not go to school, doctor, work unaccompanied men.
Now is issuing a law that puts it under direct government control of the safe houses for battered women, previously run by Afghan NGOs. To target women shelters must be accompanied by a male relative and returned to families who request it.
If political exchanges continue to be so severe on the body and the life of women is also responsible for "liberating countries" including Italy, who initially had pledged to rebuild the Afghan judicial system and, if these are the results, is accountable to the millions invested. We
Women in Black In recent years we have relationships with braided Associations
Afghan women (RAWA HAWCA, OPAWC) that have been a valuable source of evidence and we have made known the courageous resilience of unarmed women and people of Afghanistan.
These women and diverse voices of civil society is democratic and nonviolent resistance of the Afghan people and ask for our support to bring an end to military occupation, which suggests to them first thing in the end the bombardments, the main (though not only) responsible for the deaths of more than 40,000 civilians since the war began.
We call on all actors in the feminist, and Nonviolence IDENTIFYING AND PRACTICES SET to join, TOOLS AND FORMS OF OPPOSITION TO WITHDRAW ALL TROOPS AFGHANISTAN
NOT ALLOW THE AFGHANISTAN become yet another large military base
NATO FORCES SUPPORT FROM THE CIVIL DEMOCRATIC WOMEN
helps to rebuild THE COUNTRY OUT OF THE MILITARY LOGIC
March 2011
should cut military spending, not participating in this war and the other dealt for humanitarian missions and invest the saved resources to the real areas of interest "strategic". public schools, universities and research.
The data in this appeal are taken from the press and mainly on the following sites:
http://donneinnero.blogspot.com/ http://pz.rawa.org/it/index.htm
http://www.osservatorioafghanistan. org / http://www.assopace.org/
http://www.sbilanciamoci.org/ http://it.peacereporter.net/
http://www.disarmo.org/ http://www. peacelink.it /
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