Stop the War !!!

We don’t want this, Why are we doing this?

“The war will end. The leaders will shake hands. The old woman will keep waiting for her martyred son. That girl will wait for her beloved husband. And those children will wait for their heroic father. I don’t know who sold our homeland. But I saw who paid the price."

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These are the words of the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, who saw death and destruction in his homeland. Darwish was writing not just about Palestine but the cost of war waged anywhere in the world. It could be anywhere in the jungles of Africa or urban warfare in Iraq, Syria or Europe, the result is invariably the same: Ordinary civilians bear the brunt for the folly and ambition of leaders.

Some world leaders are pushing for peace in Ukraine, but some people/media are questioning their motives. “They claim to be honest brokers, but it is just a fig leaf to cover their moral bankruptcy”. Whatever !

Our inscrutable Putin wants to talk. He’s demanding four things.

The first two are that Ukraine cease military action — one assumes as part of a wider ceasefire — and change its constitution to enshrine neutrality, likely meaning it must pledge to stay out of NATO. Putin is also demanding that Ukraine and the West acknowledge Crimea as Russian territory and recognize the separatist republics of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states.

These should be seen as a starting point for meaningful discussion, something sadly lacking before the invasion.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a catastrophe and should be condemned in no uncertain terms.

We live in a messy, complicated world in which effective diplomacy that saves lives requires give and take. We hope the leaders of all involved in the current crisis spare no efforts to contain the conflict, secure a ceasefire and push for negotiations.

10Prakash Neerohoo, Raj Ramlugun and 8 others

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