Members of different parties and activist groups,teachers,lawyers,and students gathered at Sector 17 Plaza on Monday and registered their protest against the proposed limited attack on Syria by the Obama government. According to the protesters,more than one lakh people have been killed in the ongoing war in Syria. USA,supported by France,Saudi Arabia,Canada and Turkey,are planning to make capital out of the troubled waters,they said,adding,more than six million people have been affected by war and many of them are living as refugees. Kamaljit Singh of CPI (ML) Liberation said that Syrians need food and shelter,and not more missiles,as America is planning for them. Rabinder Sharma,a peace activist,reminded the people about the lies of the USA in the case of attack on Iraq. Manjit Singh,a professor from Panjab University,appealed to the US Congress not to give permit the use of missiles. The way international political blocks are divided on the unilateral decision of limited attack by the USA may take very dangerous turn,warned Singh. R S Bains,an advocate at Punjab and Haryana High Court,citing examples from history said that war is no solution to human problems. Dialogue and peace are the only enduring solutions to all the global conflicts, said Sardara Singh Cheema of Sahit Chintan,Chandigarh. Hamir Singh,president,Internationalist Democratic Party,Punjab and Malwinder Singh Mali of Punjab Manch also appealed to the Obama government to pay heed to the sentiments of the people from all over the world and desist from using armaments against the war-torn Syria. Rajeev Godara of Sampooran Karanti Manch,Haryana and Lalan Baghel of Critique,Panjab University,Chandigarh condemned the unilateral decision of the USA to interfere with the internal politics of Syria. They warned that Middle East may go berserk if super-powers did not take notice of the anti-war sentiments all over the world,including that of the people of the UK and Germany.
