6th International Conference Against Disappearances
9th – 12th December 2010, London
"Wars, National Movements and Disappearances"
CONFERENCE DECLARATION
The 6th International Conference Against Disappearances was held in London on 9th -12th December 2010 under the heading "Wars, National Movements and Disappearances". 123 delegates participated, some of whom were relatives of those disappeared under detention, from 27 different countries and nationalities, including Balochistan, Tamil Eelam, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Punjab, Kashmir, Nepal, India, Northern Kurdistan, Turkey, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, United States, Ethiopia, Morocco, the Basque Country, Switzerland, Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Great Britain, and Ireland.
As well as talking about the forced disappearances of their loved ones, the conference participants testified about their experience of political suppression, attacks they have been subjected to and their reactions and resistance to these assaults. Delegates discussed how to fight in common against forced disappearances and human rights violations in the future.
The 6th International Conference Against Disappearances has become a platform to discuss and show the painful level of forced disappearances and human rights violations in countries under the occupation of imperialist forces, such as Afghanistan and Iraq. The conference defended the isolated national movements, gave them opportunity to express themselves and know each other through their suffering from human rights violations and disappearances.
The 6th International Conference Against Disappearances, which decided to increase worldwide joint struggle against human rights violations and forced disappearances, has reached following conclusions:
Since the launching of the so-called “New World Order” project in the 1990s, the imperialist states, attempting to project the free movement of capital on a global level, have intensified their attacks on the working class and oppressed people in their efforts to remove any obstacles in the way of the free movement of capital.
In this process, involving the re-sharing of the world’s most important strategic spheres and opening of these spheres to imperialist capital, the imperialist powers began the 21st century with the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
As well as their primary threat to the right to life, wars and occupations bring about many human rights violations and allow disappearances under custody to reach atrociously high numbers. Today, along with many other human rights violations, the disappearance of hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq and Afghanistan is a clear testimony of this reality. The 6th International Conference Against Disappearances condemns the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, calls for immediate end of the invasion and demands all those responsible for human rights violations and disappearances to be held to account for their actions. From this position, the conference announces support for all struggles against wars and occupations.
Colonialism by its very nature violates the national and communal rights of other nations and communities. In the first decade of the 21st century, colonialist dealings around the world continue, the nations are being denied from their basic rights, including the right to self-determination, and their efforts to gain these rights often result in acts of suppression and bloodshed. Countries such as Tamil Eelam, Balochistan, Kurdistan, Western Sahara, and Palestine, as well as those within Europe, the so-called cradle of democracy, such as the North of Ireland and the Basque country, are examples of such places. The problems experienced by indigenous people in many parts of Latin America, and the Berber and Oromo people in Africa, as well as the oppression and persecution they face, are shall be viewed within this context.
Within this era of “New World Order”, the imperialist powers who seek to create a world without any resistance against them, have specifically targeted their attacks on the people struggling for national liberation within these oppressed-colonized countries. As a result there have been many massacres, displacements and disappearances of thousands of people under custody in Northern Kurdistan, Balochistan, Tamil Ealem, Western Sahara, Latin America and in many more regions.
The 6th International Conference Against Disappearances condemns the massacre carried out against the Tamil people in 2009 and declares support for the Tamil people and their struggle. The conference also declares support for the just struggle of Baloch people who are occupied by Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, and the people of Kashmir, Punjab, Kurdistan, Palestine, the Basque country, Ireland and the indigenous peoples of Latin America.
The 6th International Conference Against Disappearances sees the struggle and resistance of the oppressed nations against colonialism, including struggles to freely speak their own languages and practise their cultures, as well as their fight to establish a separate state, as legitimate struggles and a part of their right for self-determination. The conference calls for the people of all nations, especially the workers and labourers of the oppressing states, democratic mass organisations and human rights organizations to recognize and embrace the oppressed-colonized nations’ legitimate struggle for national liberation.
The 6th International Conference Against Disappearances sees the classification and banning of resisting organisations of national liberation as a clear support to the colonialist regimes by the imperialist states, and declares support for all struggles and efforts against the politics of “terrorist organisations list” or “black list”.
The 6th International Conference Against Disappearances recognises the increase of attacks on refugees and migrants in Europe, the so-called cradle of democracy, where refugees and migrants who have escaped from war, occupations and brutal attacks in response to their national liberation movements, have been denied their democratic rights. The conference condemns the acts in which immigrants are burned in police stations, the slaughter of people in the streets and the detention of refugees in detention camps as if they are prisoners. The conference condemns the actions of French imperialism that has abducted and killed the ETA militant Jon Anza, and calls for those responsible for his death to be held accountable and prosecuted.
The 6th International Conference Against Disappearances declares solidarity with all political prisoners who have been imprisoned for their involvement in the class struggle and national liberation struggle.
The 6th International Conference Against Disappearances recognises that women are the main victims of human rights violations and the forced disappearances. It therefore declares that it will fight against all forms of attacks against women at imperialist wars and during offensive on the rights of the oppressed nations.
The 6th International Conference Against Disappearances announces full support for recent struggles in Northern Kurdistan and Colombia following the revelations of mass graves of victims of policies of forced disappearances. It highlights the need for such campaigns in countries where there have been mass disappearances.
The 6th International Conference Against Disappearances has decided to establish stronger coordination and communication links between the relatives of those disappeared under detention, human rights organizations and conference participants, and to unified expansion of the struggle against forced disappearances.
The 6th International Conference Against Disappearances supports all victims of human rights violations and the relatives of those disappeared under detention, and respects all efforts for justice, as in the case of campaigns in Argentina. The conference believes that all struggles against human rights violations and forced disappearances can achieve success only through the use of de facto-legitimate means.
The 6th International Conference Against Disappearances believes that all activities and campaigns organised during the week of International Struggle Against Disappearances, 17th – 31st May, should be organised in a manner to increase struggle against forced disappearances.
The 6th International Conference Against Disappearances believes that the struggle against human rights violations and forced disappearances should go beyond preparing reports and protesting but should involve concrete result achieving methods, such as the examples of Plaza de Mayo Mothers in Argentina and the Saturday Mothers in Turkey. The conference believes in the necessity of increasing the struggle to end the forced disappearances and human rights violations, and to bring perpetrators to justice. It therefore calls on everyone to raise the struggle.
The 6th International Conference Against Disappearances, having brought together the relatives of those disappeared from many different nations, who, despite different languages, cultures and beliefs, have similar stories and a shared grief, sends its warmest greetings to the main elements of this struggle, the relatives of the disappeared and human rights defenders all over the world.
6th International Conference Against Disappearances
9th – 12th December 2010, London
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