Cape Town, once the home of the International Anti-Apartheid, Peace Movement has increasingly become commercial and conservative. Whatever happened to the peace pole in the city? Erected to mark peace during the eighties it appears to have been ta...
Category: Pacifism
IRAQ: Hundreds of U.S. Soldiers Emerge as Conscientious Objectors; link to SA war resistance campaign
NEW YORK, Apr 15 (IPS) – Although only a handful of them have gone public, at least several hundred U.S. soldiers have applied for conscientious objector (CO) status since January, says a rights group. The Center on Conscience and War (CCW), which advises military personnel on CO discharges...
IRAQ: British Doctor, refuses military service, follows in footsteps of South Africa’s own Ivan Toms
On March 3, 1988 – Conscientious objector Dr Ivan Toms was sentenced to 640 days' imprisonment for refusing to serve in the SADF. Yesterday, a Royal Air Force doctor was jailed for refusing to serve in Iraq. A case of history repeating itself? SEE Full story by Hasan Suroor, THE HINDU LONDO...
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