Germans protest against the tasks of state for their army
Hundreds of left-wing Germans in the demonstration roamed the main streets of the German capital of Berlin to express their refusal of military tasks ...
Khaled Schmidt - Berlin


Hundreds of left-wing Germans in the demonstration roamed the main streets of the German capital of Berlin to express their refusal of military functions of state for their army, and his participation in the wars of the United States and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and demanded the withdrawal of German troops from Afghanistan.


The demonstration ended on Friday evening in front of the headquarters of the German Ministry of Defense, where I live at the same time celebrate the Day of loyalty to the German Army, which corresponds with the anniversary to honor the officer Klaus Graf von Staovenberg and a group of colleagues who carried out a failed attempt to assassinate Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944 , an attempt that ended with the implementation of the Nazi regime for the death penalty against participants courtyard of the Ministry of Defence.


Download and participants in the protest banners reading "War start from here" and "Withdraw the German Army and NATO out of Afghanistan" and "Send the German army abroad to a violation of human rights and peoples and contrary to the Constitution of the country." They also chanted slogans against what they called the militarization of German foreign policy, and the other demanded to include ban on the export of arms to foreign materials within the German Constitution.




The demonstration coincided with the celebration of Day of the German army loyalty (IRIN)
Rejection of loyalty
A member of the German Society for Peace Uwe Hitachi said the demonstration aimed to show opposition to the participants to transform the German army to force the fight against the country's borders, and an end to all the tasks of Foreign Affairs of the German troops, and refused to post the German army in any future war against Iran or Syria.


The organizer of the demonstration in the interview of the island they reflect primarily the refusal of participants to celebrate the Day of loyalty to the German Army and their vision that is not commensurate with democratic regimes.


He pointed out that the Hitachi "This celebration is limited resistance to Hitler Staovenberg officer and his comrades, while the Communists and Social Democrats and Christian groups are organized popular resistance to the petition more than a decade against the Nazi regime."


The ceremony took place at the 68 anniversary of the assassination attempt on Hitler with a bomb in the same place where the incident occurred, and executed when the officer and his companions shot Staovenberg Balrsas order issued by the Nazi leader.


And participated in Ctqal Commander in Chief of the German Army Fkr Volcker and the Prime Minister of Bavaria and the German Council of States (Bondsrat) Horst Seehofer and the Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit and Defense Minister Thomas de Mesar who delivered a speech in which he praised the officer Staovenberg and his companions.




The demonstrators demanded the departure of the German army and NATO forces from Afghanistan (IRIN)
And Germany began in 1980 in honor of the perpetrators of the failed assassination attempt of Hitler, an occasion which leads with 400 new recruits from seven German states the traditional oath of allegiance to the German army. And witnessed the ceremony since his residence for the first time demonstrations and riots carried out by opponents of the German army.


The unrest prompted the German government to move the venue of the celebration this year in front of the Reichstag, the seat of Parliament, to the courtyard of the Ministry of Defense, citing high expenses of his stay in front of the Reichstag and the increasing security risks there.


Intervention in Syria
The German defense minister Thomas de Mesar has been ruled out by his participation in the celebration of the possibility of NATO's intervention - a United Nations mandate - to put an end to a bloody insurgency in Syria, said in an interview with Channel One television, German (ie,. R. D) The road is still not Temple before the issuance of a UN mandate, and that intervention in Syria is difficult and complicated in military terms.


The de Mesar that the conflict in Syria, the fight will turn from house to house, which will make foreign military intervention very dangerous and leads to great losses.