We've seen the results of the military interventions and of the lies told to us about Iraq and Afghanistan: thousands of civilians killed and, after so many years, peace is still far away.
As the democratic organisations in Afghanistan say: “For the price of one day of war, we could have built all the schools and hospitals that we need and we could emerge from underdevelopment”.
This intervention is also in violation of article 11 of the Italian constition which repudiates war, and in which it is specified that not only wars of aggression (an offense against the freedom of other peoples) but also war as tool for resolving international conflicts: even if we are right in a conflict, our fundamental law prohibits us from imposing our point of view by force of arms and instead suggests that we use all diplomatic and legal instruments.
And we have many questions
- Why has the international community only now realised that Gaddafi is the head of an authoritarian regime?
- Why did the Italian government sign a economic-military treaty with Libya, which it has not cancelled with the necessary parliamentary vote?
- Why did Italy sell arms to Libya?
- Why did the Security Council of the UN vote for a resolution that allows anyone to go and bomb Libya, rather than defend the civilian population by sending an interposition force of civilian observers to verify the truce declared on March 18.?
- Why did the UN choose ex-colonial countries with large-scale economic interests in Libya to defend the rebels rather than countries that are really neutral in the conflict?
- Why does the fate of the Libyan opposition provoke so much international indignation and the intervention of NATO while this doesn't happen for other countries (Palestine, Bahrain, Sudan) ?
- Why has the Saudi regime sided with the Libyan rebels while repressing any attempt at democratisation in their own country and sending soldiers to repress protests in Bahrain(45 dead in the last few days)?
- Why do solidarity and respect for human rights not apply to the thousands of people who have been washed up on our shores in flight from poverty, conflict and dictatorship?
We are not indifferent to the fate of the Libyan population, just as we were not indifferent to the fate of migrants imprisoned in Gaddafi's camps as part of the treaty that our government with the support of the opposition signed with Libya and reconfirmed yesterday by parliament to allow deportation of immigrants to Libya. However, we have seen that military interventions are bound to fail from our experience of Kosovo (now a large US base) Somalia, Iraq, and above all Afghanistan where none of the declared humanitarian aims have been realised.
We consider humanitarian intervention to be a complete deception, not just because by definition we are against any war but because past and present experience prove it.
At the same time, migrants arrived at Lampeduas are abandoned in inhuman conditions, together with the local population, by the authorities who should take care of them, out of respect for those human rights that the "defend" only with weapons.
We refuse the military response to conflict.
We oppose the use of Italian military bases for this intervention.
We call for a real and effective arms blockade to all parties in the war.
We call for a cessation of the bombing.
We call for a cessation of the bombing.
War cannot be humanised. It can only be abolished
Albert Einstein
