10-3-2008 Vredesorganisaties uit Ecuador, Columbia, Venezuela en andere Zuid-Amerikaanse landen hebben een gezamenlijke verklaring uitgegeven tegen de oorlogsdreiging na het Columbiaanse militaire optreden tegen de FARC op Ecuadoriaans grondgebied.
In de, door War Resisters International gesteunde, verklaring zeggen ze o.a. dat een oorlog het nationalisme zal aanwakkeren en zal leiden tot meer macht voor de militairen. Verder zal het de aandacht afleiden van de werkelijke problemen van de regio, zoals ongecontroleerde exploitatie van grondstoffen, hoge werkloosheid, corruptie en discriminatie.
Tekst van de verklaring:
WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER WAR
We don't need another war. We, conscientious objectors and antimilitarists from Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, and all Latin America and the Caribbean, united, emphatically refuse a military escalation leading to a war that, once more, will try to divide us. With hunger, corruption, extreme militarism, shameless military spending, civil insecurity, the continual assault on human rights by our governments, we already have enough without being given another armed conflict.
A war will only strengthen the various nationalism of the countries in conflict, augmenting the xenophobia already implanted. It will strengthen Armed Forces who will find another reason to increase their budgets, and will serve to obscure the problems that afflict the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean: the unchecked exploitation of our resources, the high levels of unemployment, gender violence and discrimination, the corruption and the mafias of power, the communities displaced by armed conflict or by single crop agriculture and forestry, racism and class discrimination. War is not the solution to any of this. On the contrary, it means these conflicts will grow as they have grown during every dictatorship and civil war.
A war between Latin American states is at the same time an internecine conflagration between sister peoples, led to the slaughter by militarist governments, both of the right and the left. The only winners of a fratricidal confrontation are the global arms dealers who, from the USA to Russia, build laboratories of war and oppression under euphemisms such as "Plan Colombia".
We say no to war and to preparations for war. No to the reinforcement of any form of militarism, be it right or left. Yes to the autonomous action of the peoples and their struggles. Yes to Latin American brother- and sisterhood.
We call for a joint action against militarism and war, arising from our commitment to continue working together far from the barracks for the promotion of justice and solidarity in each of our countries.
Antimilitaristas de Latinoamérica y el Caribe
Organizaciones:
Internacional de Resistentes a la Guerra - IRG/WRI
Grupo de Afinidad Antimilitarista de Asunción GAAA (Asunción-Paraguay)
Pelao Carvallo, consejero IRG
Yeidy Luz Rosa Ortiz, Casa Feminista de Rosa - Quito, Ecuador
Periódico El Libertario - Venezuela
Xavier León, Grupo de Objeción de Conciencia del Ecuador - GOCE
Movimiento Antimilitarista y de Objeción de Conciencia MAOC Chile
Adriana Castaño Román, Red Juvenil de Medellín, consejera IRG
Accciòn Colectiva de Objetoras y Objetores de Conciencia (ACOOC) Bogotá
Colectivo Antimilitarista de Carabanchel, españa
Movimiento de Objeción de Conciencia de Paraguay Moc Py
Alicia Zárate-artista visual-
SOS Tierra. Arte acción. Arg.
Claudia Ruiz Herrera- artista visual
Osmar Arturo Duran
KOLECTIVO UTOPIA ACRATA LIBERTARIO (K.U.A.L.)
Ateneo Autonomo de Contracultura y Estudios Acratas
Elda Munch Comini, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina.
Laura Fernández, Argentina
Rafael Cuesta
Colectivo "Libertarixs-Guayaquil", Ecuador
Violeta Franco, feminista antimilitarista
María Luisa Rojas Bolaños, mujer, madre y abuela. Médica, profesora de la Facultad de Medicina de la UADY e integrante de UNASSE una ONG feminista y defensora de los Derechos Humanos, en Mérida Yucatán. México.
Banda "Grito Libertario"
Ernesto Soltero Resistencia Civil, Caracas, Venezuela+
Bron: WRI, 6-3-2008