Niloufer Bhagwat & Vishnu Bhagwat11 maart 2008 – 14:57

I send you this message from the core of my being and embrace you who are the 'beloved' of the peoples of the world, even as you continue to defend the civilization of Iraq and the right to life and resources of all people against foreign occupation, in the tradition of one of the oldest movements against colonisation, the 1920's Revolutionary Brigades of Iraq, a unified struggle of every man , woman and child , which the combined 21st century Occupation armies , their death squads and their use of sectarian ideology, has not been able to defeat.
 
Your martyrs lie in the deserts in eternal sleep, in the bosom of Iraq . They will never be marked as Shia , Sunni or Kurd , or as Muslim or Christian or Sabian as they fought for Iraq ,one of the cradles of human civilization .
 
You have turned the hot and bitter tears of the people of Iraq into historic defiance, after the years of sanction ,which was starvation imposed on the people of Iraq, by a body called the Security Council of the United Nations; acting as the proxies of the 'Corporatocracy' of the Anglo-Saxon World , allied with other major global financial centres and the Mafia of the oil and armament Corporations, infamous in world history for having unleashed two global genocidal wars, hungry to devour the profits madeof the blood of the people of five continents, of the victims and the soldiers; apart from the countless wars waged by these oligarchies, where their victim and enemy was 'Humanity'and the policy- 'War'.

Words pale before your courage, in the face of one of the cruelest occupations in world history, using technologically advanced weaponry for genocide, mercenaries and soldiers, recruited from the unemployed and the abandoned of their societies and other parts of the world, little better than hired soldiers.
 
Your enemy collaborated with the Iraqi quislings and proxies and with financial and trading oligarchies of neighbouring governments, to facilitate the seizure of the oil resources of the people of Iraq preserved in the public sector and Iraq's national budget, to prop up their devastated Corporate controlled economies, camouflaged as 'democracies'.
 
You have exposed as false, those who masqueraded in the Arab world as 'keepers of the Holy shrines' among others, and those who sought to misuse Islam to create a divide between Sunni and Shia. Your enemies forgot history, that all their death squads could not destroy the unity of Iraq or the bravery of its men and women, their understanding that the Prophet of Islam leading the revolution of Arab society, did not create a Sunni or a Shia, elevating the women of the Arab and Islamic world to equal status, in struggle and in peace, now sought to be recanted by false religious preachers.
 
You taught the people of the world fearlessness, that we are given life to defend the lives of others and that is the ultimate sacrifice. That is divinity not empty religious rituals.
 
Those who sought to wreck you, are themselves wrecked. The financial wreckage of their societies are adrift .The pieces of financial paper created by your enemy to pauperise even their own society, are in tatters, affecting their collaborators in the Arab world and across continents, shaking many financial citadels and the heart of the Empire of the dominant economic and political system .

You lived up to your pronouncements to the world, that you would devise new strategies of warfare and you did, even without any core or unified single military center. The National Resistance of the people of Lebanon , did the same; as of now the people of Palestine in Gaza are in a state of siege while the people of Afghanistan continue their struggle to regain their homeland converted by the occupiers into a 'Narco State'and the people of Somalia take their stand .

The Arab world must recognize that every man , woman and child of Iraq , of Palestine, of Lebanon, are precious. The future lies in unity, in civil disobedience and non-co-operation with occupiers and collaborators in the Arab world and elsewhere, to disrupt their control over our societies as Mahatma Gandhi enjoined, this will complement the military resistance against foreign occupation.

We salute your victory.

Niloufer Bhagwat
Vice President of Indian Lawyers Association - Mumbai / India and
Vishnu Bhagwat
former Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy