Two years ago, the Arab Spring blossomed, inspiring the poverty-stricken oppressed masses of the Arab nation to hope for a just society, built on Freedom and Democracy.
Unfortunately, the use of brutal force and violence followed soon. For us, Armenians, a significant country like Syria became the theater of civil-wars. Other countries too, like the Lebanon, Iraq and Egypt with significant Armenian Diaspora communities are also victims of political instability.
As a direct result of regional forces in violent competition, on one side the Shiite led by the Islamic Republic of Iran versus the Sunni led by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, then the Arab-Israeli battleground, further strained by Super-power proxy conflicts led by the United States of America and its Western allies against Russia and China, arming both sides, converting Syria into a blood-soaked Hell.
The recent threats of military strikes against Syria, by the US and its Western allies have caused us, European Armenians, deep humanitarian concerns, as official wars can spread out, engulf whole regions, with incalculable and unpredictable evil consequences, producing more destruction of property, death by the hundred thousands, refugees by the millions; inconsolable grief, pain and suffering.
We, the Assembly of Armenians of Europe, reject categorically and totally the war of warmongering and imperialist powers, and we join our voices to the chorus of peace-loving and democratic forces.
The ultimate victim of War(s) is the human kind, the very human being itself as a species – those who foolishly profit from mankind’s destruction are the Armament industry and the parasites that feed on it.
We say NO, a thousand times No to War and Warmongering.