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Around the world Why Pakistan peasants won't condemn New York carnage

Socialist Outlook no. 48, September 2001 special supplement · 654 words

of innocence, the right against BUs Domen anywhere! Stop US intervention!

Today's witch hunters proExtracts from statement by us Socialist Action agents, plus additional thousands of La Migra border spends trillions on war, that has sent more troops to police the numan nestory, wait fas pron dered and ruined the as the "suspected" perpetrator. Osama bin Laden, be preparing for war.

The inexcusable and horrific terror bombing of New York to aid the "crusade" is presumsock the lies i thousands of serves as the justifi*gainst unnamed nations and individ. is threatened with individuals, groups and "suspects" who the U.S.

History's tragic irony records out recourse to democratic Farooq Tarig, General secretary Labour Party I am writing this from Toba Tek mainty a peasant dominated sugarcane and maize. In the Seventies, It was once the main centre of the town. we see the paintings of the war of Kashmir during the last few years). Many religious The street power is in the hand of the religious fundahave been recruited during the past years by the jhadi (holy youth finding no possiblity of jobs, can at least find the basic I was told by Javaid Hashmi, during the Allance for Restoration of Democracy month to visit familles whose arrives at a certain house, he has been asked not to condole taken as a gesture of the happibulk of the recruits come for many workers and ordinary citizens was of joy and happiness that the Americans had for those been killed in the terdemned the attacks but also But at Toba Tok Singh, the from Lahore to see my agoing father, I was bombarded with fighting with the banks to give back the loans he once took in the hope that the agriculture income would improve - but went nowhere. All his life, he remained loyal to the Muslim COUD CAST attacks and also told what lives of the Muslims across the one calking this way in the cown." "No one would suptoric lessons to the Americans. the hands of the Americans. He said "I am very happy destroyed my life and I am in the grip of the banks as my "I cannot afford to pay the my orange garden has been I spoke to Afzal, one of my cousins, who told me: Americans. How can they defeat the Talban when they will join demonstrations if the "There is a great hatred among us against the military's canitulation at the hands of Americans. " he added. Other feelings as Afzal. Six days after the Tuesday attacks on American cities, it seems that generaly many are happy and feel pride that at last someone has done the job they should be doing. It shows an utter hatred of American imperialism among the general masses. But the mood is turning in favour of the fundamentalists. Once the attack by the Americans starts here, the miltary regime wil face an extraordinary situation of demonstrations and ralies led by the fundamentalists.

One vilager told me that the incident of America is like a peasant getting up in a village to fight against the feudal lord with no weapons. No one in the village ever thought of fighcing against the feudal lords before. But when this peasant wins the fight, peasants in the whole vilage wil be very happy.

America is a big feudal lord of fight at the hands of someone muse celebrate.

Whenever I raised the issue of innocent Americans losing their lives, the normal reaction was, yes we sympathise, but what about those milions of Palestinians, Sudanese, Vietnamese and others who have lost the lives at their "Who supports Israc??." is another question raised immediately by every one.

It is very clear we, the progressive forces, are among the very few who see we have to condemn terrorism, whether at individual or state level.

VICTIMS ANYWHERE

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