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STOP War in Georgia!
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“We have an extremely critical situation in Georgia. The Russian troops have begun the war (…). They are bombing the whole country, the seaside, mountains, near the capital, Tbilisi, all the big towns of the country. The airport, railway stations, hospitals, the port, they bombed us from two sides, from Abkhazia and the border of Osetsia (where Russian peace builders were located). In the country: total mobilization. The country is in ruins. But we are very strong, there’s no panic in the country, and everybody continues to work.” This is a testimony from Ia Verulashvili, leader of the Women’s Center in Georgia from 9th of August.

All young feminists in Europe, let’s express our strong solidarity with people of Georgia, and especially all Georgian women, who suffer from the ongoing military conflict and are facing a full-scale war.

This is an absolutely unfair aggressive disruption of people’s lives, a predatory war, which leads from the totaliatarian, violent and militaristic patriarchal regimes and great power disparities in the region and the world. It is even more unjustifiable, that violence employs manipulations with the discourses of “peacekeeping”, nationalisms and “protection of civilians”, which Russian government uses to explain their violent actions.

People of Georgia are paying the price of two imperialisms, Russian and American, struggling over its natural resources. Its president, Mikheil Saakashvili, has been militarising his country since a few years, inviting hundreds of american and israeli military and security experts. He has also decided to start this irresponsible military operation, which has cost life of many people, men, women and children.

Although we do condemn Russian aggresive response to this operation and its attempts to overthrow president Saakashvili, we can’t support Mr Saakashivili’s militaristic and irresponsible policy. We see him as another politician who is trying to build his popularity on the war. We reject this kind of „heroism”.

We are on the side of people of Georgia, and especially on the side of hundreds of women protesting against the war in front of the presidential palace in Tbilisi. They don’t want members of their families and friends be enrolled in this war which serves the interests of undemocratic regimes and international corporations. Their voices are not heard enough and their perspective is not taken into consideration by their country leaders.

It has been shown by many studies how patriarchy is inextricably linked to violence and war.With all the criticisms from the feminist and other movements towards violent actions and dirscourses, the violence and militarisms are still very strong and active in Europe today, as we see from this war.

This is what we, as young feminist in Europe should think about, as it is clear from the previous wars that women are among the most affected groups and do lose greatly in military conflicts.

Unfortunately, we do not yet have young women’s groups from Georgia in our network. Hopefully, we can contact them in the nearest future and express solidarity directly, if the war is finally stopped and life is restored in Georgia.

http://www.youngfeminist.net/

August 14, 2008 | 5:47 AM Comments  1 comments

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Arslanik Arslan Jumaniyazov
August 14, 2008 | 1:38 PM

Great article! I am tired of reading one-sided, biased, partisan commentaries. This one, I think, strikes at the heart of the problem. We should support the ordinary people of Georgia and breakway regions. Militarists of the US, Russia, and Georgia have no morals.

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