Alwaght- German people took to the streets of Berlin to protest against US-led airstrikes on Syria and Berlin’s arms export, calling for an end to war.
The demonstration was organized left-wing party Die Linke whose co-chair, Dietmar Bartsch, delivered an eloquent speech in front of the crowd, slamming Germany’s role in the ongoing conflict in Syria as a weapons exporter.
Nearly a week ago, the United States, France and the United Kingdom launched a coordinated missile strike on Syria in response to the alleged use of chemical weapons in the city of Douma in Eastern Ghouta, blamed on Damascus. Syrian government has repeatedly denied any involvement in gas attack against people, arguing that such false flag chemical attacks are orchestra by West-backed militants groups to be used as an excuse for attacking Syrian army that is fighting terrorists.
“Weapons don’t make peace, they always end up in the wrong hands,” Bartsch emphasized.
At the same time, Sahra Wagenknecht, his co-chair, criticized US president’s warmongering approaches.
“Where air raids are announced from one nuclear power to another nuclear power via Twitter, one thinks we’re in the wrong movie. But it would be far too simple to say, ‘Okay, there is a mad man in the White House, he wrote a tweet incorrectly and brought us all into danger.’ No, it’s still close. It is an escalation, where one step comes after the next,” she said.
Earlier this week, Steffen Seibert, German government spokesman, said that the country had not received a “request” for military involvement in Syria, yet emphasized that Germany supported those “who were outraged by yet another use of chemical weapons by the regime” of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
On April 14, the United States, the UK and France carried out a joint missile strike on a number of targets in Syria, describing the attack as a retaliatory measure to an alleged use of chemical weapons by government forces in the city of Douma.
The missiles were launched a week after several media reported, citing militants on the ground that the Assad army had dropped a chlorine bomb on civilians in Douma, with the White Helmets offering unverified footage of the aftermath of the alleged attack. While the Syrian government strongly denied its involvement, denouncing the entire situation as a false flag, the Western nations were quick to blame the incident on Damascus.
The attack on Syria came the same day the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was due to start its fact-finding mission in Douma to probe the alleged chemical weapons’ use.
