Say NO! to War and War Preparations

20 September 2001

Say NO! A Call For Conscientious Objection to War and War Preparations

War Resisters' International, an international network of pacifist organisations with 80 affiliates in more than 40 countries, calls for conscientious objection in view of the war preparations undertaken by NATO, Afghanistan and many other countries. Although still shocked by the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on 11 September, we are deeply convinced that a war of retaliation will only fuel the cycle of violence. Fighting the crime of the terrorist attack with the crime of bombing and killing equally innocent people doesn't sum up to zero - it only adds to the suffering. We call for justice without war. It is the responsibility of each of us to resist war and the preparations for war.

In this situation:

* War Resisters' International calls on all soldiers - in whichever forces they are supposed to fight - to follow their conscience and refuse to take part in the preparation of war, or in war: refuse orders, apply for conscientious objector status, desert, say No!

* War Resisters' International calls on everybody involved in war preparations in the administration or in factories: refuse orders, say No!

* War Resisters' International calls on journalists and the media asked to support war preparations, and to promote war: refuse to do so, insist on writing the truth, say no!

* War Resisters' International calls on its members and on everybody, to support those refusing to participate in war and war preparations, and to get involved in direct nonviolent resistance against war!

War Resisters' International.

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