An open letter to the anti war and terrorism movement of the world in the third anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq Libertarian powers of the world
Anti war and occupation movement of the world
As the third anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq emerges while the society is undergoing the hardest time of its life, the war continues its pace in every single street in Baghdad, Mosul, Kirkuk and everywhere else in the country. The assassinations and disappearances overtake politicians, doctors, engineers and scholars. The explosives are taking the civilians lives regardless of their ages at every given moment. The arrests, raids and torture carried out by the occupying troops are in a state of ongoing actions. The poverty and unemployment are wide spreading as the security situations slipping off the hands. In addition the puppet government and in response to the International Monetary Fund have made decisions to make peoples’ lives even more miserable by rising the fuel prices and taking steps to gradually eliminate the subsidized ration coupon. What we gained after three years of occupation are, the lack of social services, power outage, and ethno-sectarian gangs hanging over the society.
Just as we forewarned in the eve of the constitution referendum and election at the end of last year, that the US administration attempts to get its policies through and continue its occupation after failing to find the weapons of mass destruction. We said at that time that this is a US game in which the ethnic and sectarian division will deepen and the society will slide into a civil war. There you are! Seeing and hearing how Iraq is becoming another Rwanda. People are getting murdered on a daily bases because of their sectarian identities.
We were supposed to organize marches in the third anniversary of the invasion in Baghdad, Kirkuk and Basra as we announced earlier this month, however the current security situation preclude us from doing so. Though we will consider different possibilities to express our protest in this day where millions of people around the world will march the streets to denounce the war and occupation.
Friends, brothers, comrades and peace lovers all over the world and especially in the United States:
Millions of people in Iraq are looking forward to your movement, to your hard work, and to your struggle to bring peace to the world. Without your solidarity and support the US inhumane policies will not be defeated. We strongly believe that the security and stability will not prevail unless the occupation is ended. Therefore we are determined to boot out the occupation, and here we are today in spite of the hardship we are enduring, we save no effort to bring hope to millions of people around us and present our humanitarian alternative.
We work in several regions in Iraq to create secured neighborhoods where the sectarian and ethnic hatred have no ground what so ever. We educate people how to protect themselves and their neighbors and how not letting the hatred get to their unity. We organize their ranks to make their places of living safer for the people who run away from the sectarian mobs. At the same time we work to bring basic social services to make their lives easier.
On the other hand, through carrying out demonstrations, sit ins, gatherings, and media we struggle to end the occupation, forming a non-ethnic and non-religious government where people are recognized as human beings and take their matters on their hands.
In this occasion, I would like to say: what ended the bloodshed in Vietnam are the protests that swept New York, Washington and the rest of the world. And we are absolutely certain that ending the chaos and bloodshed in Iraq will take place by rising the international protests and awareness in the same cities that ended the Vietnamese war.
Iraq Freedom Congress is part of the humanitarian current you represent. With your support by all means only, will prevail.
Long Live international solidarity
Samir Adil
President of Iraq Freedom Congress
Baghdad
March 14, 2006
ifcongress@gmail.com
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