Faslane Peace Camp
Brief naar Britse Ambassade (14 sep 98)
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Met vriendelijke groet
Omslag,
Marta Resink.
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September 1998
To: The Embassy of Great Britain
Att. of the ambassador
Lange Voorhout 10
2514 ED Den Haag
Your Excellency,
It is with great concern that we learned that Hanna Jarvinen,
Katri Silvonen (both Finns), Krista van Velzen (Dutch), Jens Light
(Australian), Angie Zelter, Helen John and Ian Thomson (all
British) are held on remand in a Scottish prison. Those brave
persons were arrested last August, during non-violent attempts to
disarm the illegal nuclear weapon of mass destruction system
Trident at the navy base near Faslane, Scotland.
We would like to assure you, your excellency, that in our eyes,
as in the eyes of the vast majority of all the people in the world,
those persons are no criminals, but heroes. The only thing they
did was upholding international law, conform the obligation under
the Nuremberg principles that each and every citizen has the duty
to prevent and to report war crimes.
As you should know, the International Court of Justice ruled in
its Opinion in July 1996 that the threat or use of nuclear weapons
are generally contrary to the existing rules of international law
applicable in armed conflict. The Court found that nuclear weapons
seem scarcely reconcilable with the requirement of humanitarian
law. The Court further found that the nuclear weapon states had
not demonstrated any circumstances justifying legal use.
Important is also that the judges of the International Court of
Justice unanimously concluded that Article VI of the Nuclear Non-
Proliferation Treaty is not just a vague policy statement, but a
legal obligation to achieve a precise result.
This means that the UK government, which is not involved in a
negotiating process specifically focussed on the goal of total
nuclear disarmament, is at this very moment violating its
obligations under international law.
Therefore, Your Excellency, we strongly urge the British
government to dismantle its nuclear arsenal completely and to
release the seven peace activists who did nothing else but
upholding on an open and stricly non-violent way the opinion of
the highest juridical organ in the world.
We would very much appreciate if you could inform us as soon as
possible about the fate of the seven persons mentioned above.
The five woman are kept at HMP Cornton Vale and the two men at
HMP Greenock, both in Scotland.
Respectfully Yours,
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