Friday 25 March 2011

APIC(APICONG) Statement regarding the Syrian Revolution

The Afro-Asian People's Democratic Islamic Congress wishes to express its solidarity with the Syrian Revolution.

We whole-heartedly support the demands of the Syrian people, Arab and Kurdish, Muslim, Christian, Sunni, Shi'i, Druze.

We condemn the inappropriate and inadequate response of the Syrian government to these demands and the brutal repression of our brothers' and sisters' legitimate protests.

A government that is unresponsive to the will of the people has forfeited its political legitimacy. A state whose only means of enforcing public order is Emergency Law, a regulation that has been in place in Syria ever since 1963, is a state caught in an irresolvable contradiction, a state so deeply alienated from its own population that no common language can be found.

The people of Syria have risen to end the antagonism between themselves and the political institutions meant to represent them. They have risen to take control of these institutions and thereby to make their rich and ancient country truly their own.

Every support should be given to the people's revolution and to their democratic endeavours.

We wish to warn our Syrian brothers and sisters that, apart from an inner opponent, there is an external enemy as well. An enemy who eagerly seeks to manipulate the revolutionary uprisings in the Middle East in order to implement its interests on Arab and Middle Eastern soil, pursuing a neo-colonial and imperialist agenda. An enemy who does not shy away from direct military intervention, determined to install pro-Western governments in the Middle East.

This enemy too needs to be tackled. In Syria, in Libya and elsewhere. Our message to the revolutionary peoples is: do not allow yourselves to be used but make sure it is you who dictates the conditions and sets the pace!
Do not be fooled by the imperialist nation's "humanitarian' pretense. Their interests are economic and strategic interests solely.

Brothers and sisters, speak for yourselves, and for yourselves alone! Pursue your own interests and nothing else! The people owe their oppressors no loyalty. The wolf disguised in a lamb's fleece remains a wolf.
No pro-Western government must rise on Syrian or Libyan soil. To allow this to happen would be the ultimate betrayal of the people's revolution.

Our allies are the people. Our irreconcilable foe are the imperialist governments worldwide.

For freedom, people's democracy and national rebirth!

APIC(APICONG)

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