IAWM Bulletin
IRISH ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT PRESS RELEASE ON MYANMAR – 18 MARCH 2021 • SOLIDARITY WITH PROTESTERS IN MYANMAR Terror and courage in Myanmar The people of Myanmar are living an ongoing nightmare since 1 February 2021, when the mililtary declared falsely that the election on 8 November 2020 was fraudulent. Min Aung Hlaing, the commander-in-chief of the country's armed forces, the Tatmadaw, launched a violent coup – the first since 1988 - to overthrow the election, which had been won in a landslide by Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy. In late 2019, Aung San Suu Kyi unsuccessfully defended this same general and the military against accusations of genocide at the International Court of Justice in the Hague. Her collaboration with and attempt to co-govern with the military proved fruitless, as she and other parliamentarians including president Win Myint were immediately arrested under trumped-up charges following the coup on 1st February. The military is now ruthlessly dismantling civilian rule and reversing the steps begun about ten years ago towards democracy. Two officials of the elected government are among five people known to have died after being tortured. Unprecedented unity among the protesters
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IRISH ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT BULLETIN - 16 MARCH 2021 On the 18th anniversary of the Bush Blair led illegal invasion of Iraq and the 10th anniversary of the uprising in Syria, horrific war and famine now threaten the people of Yemen. Media and politicians are ignoring it. Please spread the word. CNN REPORT HERE - https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2021/03/10/yemen-starving-children-... • TAOISEACH MUST RAISE THE YEMEN CATASTROPHE WITH JOE BIDEN ON ST. PATRICK’S DAY • YEMINI PEOPLE ARE STARVING TO DEATH - LIFT THE US BACKED SAUDI BLOCKADE NOW! • CHARITY NOT ENOUGH – END THIS INHUMANE WAR NOW! • IRISH GOVERNMENT SHOULD ONLY ALLOW HUMANITARIAN U.S. FLIGHTS THROUGH SHANNON UNPUBLISHED LETTER SENT TO FIVE NEWS OUTLETS IN IRELAND ON 11 MARCH, NOW ISSUED AS A PR Dear Editor, people in Yemen are starving to death. They are dying in hospitals, homes and on the roadsides fleeing to safety. Many severely undernourished children who make it to the safety of the overcrowded Hodeidah Hospital on the Red Sea coast still die as their bodies are so weakened with starvation. 400,000 Yemini children are at risk of dying according to the director of the UN World Food Programme. 11 million children need aid in the world’s worst humanitarian disaster. The UN estimates that 50% of health-care facilities have shut down in a conflict that has displaced more than 3.6 million people, over 80% of which are women and children. The Coronavirus pandemic runs rampant among such dysfunctionality.
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Date: 5/2/2021 7:30PM Speakers:
Registration: https://www.pbp.ie/fri-feb-5th-7-30pm-stop-the-war-in-yemnen/
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IRISH ANTI WAR MOVEMENT BULLETIN – 23 JANUARY 2021 DAY OF ACTION FOR YEMEN – STOP THE WAR NOW! The IAWM is asking all its members and supporters to join with multiple organisations and activists around the world to support the Day of Action for Yemen which occurs on this Monday 25 January. There are multiple Covid-safe online events happening around the world including the UK’s Stop the War Coalition Global Online Rally at 7pm on Monday which you can register for through this link. The speakers include Ahmed Al-Babati (British-Yemeni Soldier) Over 230,000 Yeminis have been killed in this war which has also resulted in a catastrophic humanitarian crisis whereby 24 million people including 80% of Yemini children (12.3 million) are dependent on and in desperate need of humanitarian aid. The country is in danger of a massive famine which could devastate an entire generation of Yemenis. This catastrophe was all avoidable. Western Governments have supported the bombing of Yemen by the Saudi / UAE coalition. The UK based Campaign against the Arms Trade (CAAT) estimates that over £15B. worth of weapons have been sold by the US, Britain, Canada, Spain, France and Italy to Saudi Arabia since the war started. Why cannot such monies be used to feed the starving and cure the sick instead? While there may be atrocities and human rights abuses on both sides of the internal conflict within Yemen as documented by Amnesty International in this report - https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa/yemen/... - there is no doubt that this horrific war has been exacerbated and prolonged by the interference and support for one side by western governments particularly those of the US and Britain. This must stop now!
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The Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM) is hosting a debate in Wynn's Hotel from 8:30PM-10PM Wed 5th February 2020. Facilitated by: Vincent Browne IRISH NEUTRALITY, FOREIGN POLICY AND THE GENERAL ELECTION 2020 Participants so far include:
all main political parties have been invited. Come along and hear the arguments. The IAWM is calling for people to vote for candidates and parties that will reclaim Irish neutrality and close the Shannon War Port
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