[E-rundbrief] Info 1461 - Stop Ramstein Campaign: No Drone Wars!

[Matthias Reichl]

E-Rundbrief - Info 1461 - Ramstein Campaign: No Drone Wars! Never 
again war from German soil

Bad Ischl, 14.8.2015

Begegnungszentrum für aktive Gewaltlosigkeit

www.begegnungszentrum.at

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Dear friends and colleagues,

please find below and enclosed an appeal with first signatories.

The appeal calls the German parliament and government

·         - to ban the US from using Ramstein as the basis of their 
drone wars by law;

·         - to close down Ramstein’s satellite relay station;

·         - to renounce the purchase of combat drones for the Bundeswehr;

·         - to proscribe the acquisition of combat drones for military;

·         - to end the illegal spying of NSA, in cooperation with the 
German intelligence agency BND, for which Ramstein is a focal point;

and calls for a demonstration and rally in front of Airbase Ramstein 
on September 26.

We would like to ask you to distribute this information to interested 
persons and also would like to ask you to send us short statements of 
support for our website as well as for the rally.

Greetings,

Reiner Braun

Pascal Luig

Lucas Wirl


Ramstein Campaign: No Drone Wars! Never again war from German soil


Appeal

The US Air Force base at Ramstein, Germany, is a central pivot for 
preparing and executing wars of aggression violating international 
law. Most of the lethal missions of US combat drones, e.g. in Iraq, 
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, and Africa, are conducted via 
Ramstein’s satellite relay station.

US drone pilotes from a multitude of military bases use Ramstein for 
operating killer drones in illegal war missions around the world. In 
Ramstein itself, about 650 personnel continuously analyze, update and 
pass on data from the surveillance of alleged targets.

With drones, the US government has extrajudicially killed almost 5,000 
people in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia as well as more than 13,000 in 
the war in Afghanistan. US drones have killed countless victims in 
Iraq, Syria, and Libya. The large majority of the victims were 
innocents such as women, children, and old people. The orders to 
murder are transmitted from joysticks via Ramstein’s satellite relay 
station to the specific drones. Without Ramstein, the whole drone war 
would be obstructed decisively sine die.

At the same time, Ramstein was indispensable for logistically 
executing the brutal US/NATO war in Afghanistan and the US war of 
aggression in Iraq. The same is true for looming US interventionist 
wars, including at the borders of Russia.

The components of the US missile defense shield are stationed in 
different NATO states. One of its commando centers is incorporated 
into Ramstein’s AIRCOM, headquarters of all NATO air forces.

Extrajudicial executions of citizens of foreign countries on their own 
soil do not only violate the UN’s human rights charter and 
international law, but they also violate the German constitution if 
the crime emanates from German territory. We will not accept this any 
longer: neither the illegal goings-on of the US in Germany, nor their 
crimes against international law emanating from German territory, nor 
their support by the German government.

We thus demand of the German parliament and government:

·         to ban the US from using Ramstein as the basis of their 
drone wars by law;

·         to close down Ramstein’s satellite relay station;

·         to renounce the purchase of combat drones for the Bundeswehr;

·         to proscribe the acquisition of combat drones for military;

·         to end the illegal spying of NSA, in cooperation with the 
German intelligence agency BND, for which Ramstein is a focal point.

Only individual commitment and determined action can put an end to the 
German government’s highly dangerous military politics and the US/NATO 
acts of war.

Hence we call for a demonstration and rally in front of Ramstein Air 
Base on September 26th, 2015, for a large public event in 
Kaiserslautern on September 25th, and for an evaluation and 
future-planning meeting on September 26th evening – as part of a 
long-term and extensive campaign.


First Signatories: (see: http://www.ramstein-kampagne.eu/ )


The appeal Stop Ramstein Campaign:  No Drone Wars! Never again war 
from German soil may be signed online (in German) at: 
www.ramstein-kampagne.eu

Contact:

Action Office Ramstein-Campaign

Marienstraße 19/20                                    Telefon: 030 20 
65 48 57

10117 Berlin                                                Fax: 030 
31 99 66 89

www.ramstein-kampagne.eu                     info at ramstein-kampagne.eu


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Aktionsbüro Ramstein-Kampagne

Marienstraße 19/20

10117 Berlin

www.ramstein-kampagne.eu

Email: info at ramstein-kampagne.eu

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