By IRNA,
London : Britain’s largest peace group network held a demonstration outside Prime Minister David Cameron’s office Tuesday in protest against his ‘warmongering’ in Libya.
“David Cameron has been leading the charge for military intervention in Libya and, alongside Obama and Sarkozy, has dragged the Western powers into the third war against a Muslim country in the past ten years,” said Stop the War Coalition (STWC).
“In the light of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, the danger of a long war with Libya that can only bring more misery to its people, is obvious. Public opinion in Britain and the USA is very strongly opposed to this latest episode of warmongering,” STWC said.
Five MPs have called for parliament to be recalled during its current Easter recess following the British prime minister signing a joint statement with the US and French presidents, making the replacement of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as a condition of a ceasefire.
STWC said that Cameron, Obama and Sarkozy had “made it clear that this is now a war of regime-change, which is neither sanctioned by the UN resolution nor legal under international law.”
Plans are to step up the campaign against the military intervention in Libya by holding a public rally involving the trade unions, following the statements calling for the end to the bombing by Unite and Unison, the two biggest unions in Britain.
STWC said that it was also organising a protest against Obama’s state visit to the UK next month as happened against former US president George W Bush came at the height of the Iraq war in 2003.