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De dierenartsen van de oorlog om over de wreedheden van de V.S. te spreken
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In een gebeurtenis in Washington, hebben de veteranen en de militairen andere leden van de militairen aangespoord om tot hen in het spreken uit tegen oorlog in Irak toe te treden.
De donderdag heeft de gebeurtenis van van de vierdaagse van de Winter `Militair' in Washington geschopt, die door de Veteranen van Irak tegen de Oorlog (IVAW) wordt georganiseerd die andere militaire persoonlijk om uit tegen de wreedheden van de V.S. in Irak en Afghanistan aanspoorde te spreken.
Camilo Mejia, the first conscientious objector to the Iraq war and chairperson of the board of Iraq Veterans against the War spoke of a groundswell of resistance within the US military to the war in Iraq, which will enter its sixth year later this month.
“Servicemen and women are refusing en masse to participate in this war. I have seen a rapid and inevitable growth of dissent within our ranks,” Camilo Mejia said.
At the ‘Winter Soldier’ event some 200 soldiers will give eye-witness testimonies about what they lived through during their deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, and afterwards.
Vietnam veterans held a ‘Winter Soldier’ event in 1971 at which more than 100 servicemen and 16 civilians described atrocities committed against innocent civilians in South Vietnam.
The name ‘Winter Soldier’ is derived from the “summer soldier” described by American Revolutionary War writer Thomas Paine in “The Crisis:”
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