The Coaltion for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) condemns the indiscriminate mass murder perpetrated in the USA on I1 September, 2001 using hifacked passenger aircraft as wespons.
CNDP joins the world in expressing iss heartfelt condolences to the bereaved familes and the American people. There can be no justification for mass murder committed either by stateless fanatical groups or by states.
This is the reason that the peace moverent, all over the world, opposes weapons of mass destruction such as nuclear. biological and chemical weapons.
September: I 1 has shown that mass murder today does not need sophisticated technology. Such barbaric activity poisons all peace processes, and sets back all efforts at disarmament. This crime also shows that neither nuclear weapons nor defence shields like National Missile Defence provide any additional 'security' There will be forces in the United States goverment and elsewhere caling for retaliatory strikes and reprisals. Any response that does not distinguish between perpetrators and innocent people will be no different from the barbaric acts of f ith September that have drawn justified worldwide condemnation. It is also necessary to distinguish becween the acts of terrorism and the causes driving it. Addressing orly terrorist aces wil not stop the current spiral of violence. Negotiated and just setdements of various conficts around the world are the only long term guarantees for peace and against terrorism. It appears that the United States, is now preparing for unilateral action in Aighanistan. CNDP strongy believes that any such action should only be under the aegis of the UN.
CNDP belleves that india should not be a party to such unilateral US action and, deplores the Vajpayee government's willingness to compromise india's sovereignty. significant of causes. of terrorist-avengers ines and makes spectators tion. EYca tory struggles Morcover. the Pentagon indiscriminate methodology of geois democracies. However deroid of real popular conT De CO GenOd racy, with the great weaken. ing of a genuine socialist democratic alternative, the
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