Friday 30 August 2013

Syria March Saturday In London


Hope to be there, my sons first demo. 

This is our chance to be heard, use it to send a clear message. Despite loosing the vote last night the Tories may try and push for war again. 

Caroline Lucas MP said:
“I have deep concerns about resorting to military action. While completely deploring the actions of Assad and his regime, and believing that all those responsible for war crimes should be referred to the International Criminal Court, it is by no means clear that military action will reduce suffering in the region.
“Our guiding principle now must be to do all we can to protect lives. When considering military intervention, we need to look at the balance of risks. Currently, there is no evidence that the most likely scenario – a symbolic missile strike on a key regime target – would have a deterrent effect on the Assad regime.  To the contrary, it seems at least as likely that it could act as a provocation to the regime, and lead to an escalation of the conflict, and greater harm to civilians.
“We need to learn from our experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan. If the UK supports or participates in military action, particularly before a full report from the UN weapons inspectors, our chances of working towards a diplomatic resolution would be seriously undermined.
“Given that Russia looks likely to block agreement at the Security Council, the legality of a military response is also in question. 
“The UK should now redouble efforts to address the refugee crisis, particularly in Jordan, Iraq, Turkey and Lebanon, and support all humanitarian efforts to reduce suffering.”


Hans Blix in the Huffington Post said why an attack on Syria will be "a sad day for international legality": http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-gardels/hans-blix-the-united-stat_b_3819367.html

"A UN-brokered peace process involving all the local and regional players remains the only solution. It may not satisfy the understandable impulse that “we have to do something”.


Stop the war say:
"Britain, France and the US are committing to another disastrous military intervention. Apart from the inevitable casualties, any attack on Syria can only inflame an already disastrous civil war and would risk pulling in regional powers further."

"Most people in this country have learnt from the disasters of Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. According to a Telegraph/YouGov poll on Sunday only 9% of the British public would support troops being sent to Syria, and only 16% support sending more arms to the region. Our politicians however have learnt nothing."

"We need the maximum level of protests to stop them plunging us in to yet another catastrophic war."

No attack on Syria
- National Demonstration: Saturday 31 August, The demonstration is now assembling at Temple Tube at midday on Saturday and marching via parliament and Downing Street to Trafalgar Square.

The national demonstration on Saturday will gather at Embankment (near Embankment tube) and march via Parliament and Downing Street, ending in Central London for a political rally to say No attack on Syria."

2 comments:

Steven said...

I bet you'd like some "intervention" if it were targetted against the je, er sorry Israel...

Adrian Windisch said...

Why would you say that Steven. Some evidence please