Quando passam 9 anos de duração da Guerra do Afeganistão, a Plataforma Anti-guerra Anti-NATO participará, no âmbito de um apelo internacional a favor do fim da Guerra do Afeganistão, num Dia Internacional de Acção por um cessar fogo no Afeganistão, estando a programar acções de rua em Lisboa e no Porto.
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Our Call to Action ( 7-10 de Outubro de 2010)
As we approach the ninth anniversary of the disastrous invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, we call for decentralized international days of action October 7-10 to bring U.S. and NATO troops home. We call for a ceasefire, negotiations and the withdrawal of foreign forces.
The U.S.-NATO phase of the Afghan War has been predictably deadly and counterproductive since the beginning. Even U.S. military leaders now concede that there is no military solution to what is at its core an Afghan civil war. Yet, in an era defined by the highest levels of unemployment since the Great Depression of the 1930s, instead of investing in job creation and provision of essential social services, our governments are flushing colossal amounts of taxpayers’ money down the drain of a futile, murderous and destructive war.
Rather than “winning hearts and minds”, the war and long-term foreign military occupation have alienated the Afghan people and fueled deepening and increasingly widespread armed resistance by local communities and the fractured Taliban. A new civilian UN mandate in Afghanistan is needed to create and develop human security. A growing majority of Afghans no longer see U.S. and NATO forces as liberators. Instead, they see Western occupiers as the primary cause of their insecurity and suffering and want them to leave. As the international press reports, “a drumbeat is starting to sound across Afghanistan in favor of talking to the Taliban”.
Instead of the promised peace and security, Afghans are suffering an ever-growing civilian death toll. The corruption of the increasingly unpopular U.S.-imposed warlord/Karzai government, which controls little more than the capital Kabul, is now infamous. The 2010 presidential election has been universally condemned as a fraud. Massive increases in poppy cultivation have further corrupted the Karzai government, warlords and the Taliban, who use the drug trade to maintain their privileges and finance the continuing civil war. By allying with minority non-Pashtun warlords to overthrow the Taliban in 2001 and making them the foundation of the Karzai government, the majority Pashtuns were further alienated from the rulers in Kabul. And, with the exception of Kabul, the values shared by warlords and the Taliban have meant few or no changes for women.
We therefore call for decentralized international days of nonviolent action October 7-10 urging a ceasefire, Afghan and international negotiations, and the urgent withdrawal of all foreign military forces from that beleaguered nation. With actions from vigils, banner drops, conferences and meetings with government officials to teach-ins, demonstrations and civil disobedience, we can move our governments to end this catastrophic war.
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Comunicado da PAGAN, Plataforma Anti-Guerra Anti-Nato
Afeganistão: 9 anos de guerra
Um minuto já seria demais
Já dura há 9 anos a guerra que o Pentágono e a Nato programaram para o Afeganistão, ainda antes do 11 de Setembro de 2001.
São 9 anos de destruição. Anos em que a área abrangida não tem parado de se alargar, do Afeganistão para o Paquistão e, mais recentemente, com réplicas no Quirguizistão e no Tadjiquistão.
São 9 anos com deslocações em massa de populações pobres, de vítimas colaterais dos bombardeamentos da NATO, com aviões tripulados e outros “inteligentes” dirigidos a partir de consolas instaladas nos EUA.
São 9 anos de engrandecimento do negócio do ópio, a favor dos senhores da guerra e do alastramento da toxicodependência a 800000 afegãos.
São 9 anos de esforços de controlo pelos EUA das vias de transporte de petróleo e gás e que se revelam como um fracasso militar e estratégico.
São 9 anos de gastos brutais com a guerra, com os contratos para a produção de armamentos e com empresas de serviços militares. Gastos tanto mais condenáveis quando se oneram os povos com desemprego, cortes salariais, degradação dos cuidados de saúde.
Portugal participa nessa guerra e, a despeito do empobrecimento colectivo a que se assiste, o governo desencadeou uma verdadeira orgia de compras de armamento (submarinos, carros de combate e anti-motim, aviões); sem olhar ao deficit público ou ao crescimento da dívida.
Retirada imediata de tropas estrangeiras do Afeganistão!
Extinção da NATO!
Cancelamento por Portugal de todas as compras de equipamentos militares!
PLATAFORMA ANTI-GUERRA ANTI-NATO
