Press release - January 27, 19 H (GMT). Last press release comprising dates
and hours of arrival to Milan included.
The convoy of human shields develops through Europe. The convoy of human shields composed
of three buses to imperial and more than 50 volunteers of Great Britain and a little
everywhere in the world, received an enthusiastic reception in Amsterdam and Paris and
moves now towards Strasbourg, Munich and Milan.The convoy left London last Saturday in
an explosion of world publicity and rolls through Europe, collecting on the way new
volunteers to form the human shields. They will arrive to Baghdad on February 8 when the
volunteers will remain until the imminent threat of war passed. The leader of the convoy,
old the marine American and veteran of the war of the Gulf, Ken Nichols O' Keefe, is
persuaded that a massive civil presence in Iraq has the potential to create the pressure
necessary to prevent the Western governments from continuing
a " criminal war ". O' Keefe was deeply moved, not only by the number of people
willing to go voluntary but also by the heat expressed by the people met on the way.
" Everywhere where we go, people already intended to speak about our action and
support us in an incredible way. In Paris, people leaned by the windows to acclaim us. In
crowd, somebody asked whether we needed a driver of replacement. When we answered that
yes, it went at his place, it made its bag and it joined the convoy. Last week, we had
more than 30.000 visits on our site internet as 300 new candidatures of people wanting to
become human shields " brings back O' Keefe.
One expects that hundreds of people join the convoy before it passes the Iraqi border.
There are also other actions of human shields envisaged, the next one comprising the
installation of flights charter bound for Syria then of Baghdad. The first flight is
attached temporarily to the following 12 February and flights at February 22.
" Our so-called democracies misled us. If we, as people, will stop the war, we have
the duty to act ", affirms O' Keefe. " Our strategy is potentially dangerous but
it is the risk which we must take while remaining at the sides of our brothers and sisters
in Iraq. We can and we must stop this war, and all which we need to make a success of they
are a few thousands of volunteers to go to Iraq. " |
