Noi non siamo nemici del popolo iracheno !! Non uccideteli!!!

THEY ARE NOT ENEMY OF IRAQI PEOPLE!!
DON'T KILL THEM!!

Yesterday three Japanese were kidnapped on the way to Baghdad by one
religious brigade. The brigade sent a letter demanding the Japanese
government to withdraw the Self-Defense Forces, or Japanese Army from
Iraq within three days and telling that they would kill them in the same
way as Americans in Falluja if the Japanese government wouldn't accept
it.
Three Japanese were going to Baghdad to support Iraqi people.
Naoko Takato at 34 is a NGO activist of medical care. She is
particularly involved in street children who lost parents because of
American bombing.
Soichiro Kooriyama at 32 is a photo-jounalist who often sends us
information and photos with message showing tragedy of war and occupation
to stop them.
Noriaki Imai at 18 is a young peace activist. He has just graduated from
the high school. He lives in Hokkaido near the big base of the SDF which
plays a key role in Japanese dispatched forces in Iraq. He joined the
International Joint Demonstration on March 20 to stop occupation and
pull out all allied forces from Iraq.

Now the Japanese government says that it would never pull out the SDF
and continue to stay in Iraq, ignoring many pleas from ordinary
Japanese asking the government to help them and make the SDF leave Iraq
immediately.

We are now sending the Japanese government, Prime Minister, as many
politicians and media as possible a message demanding the Gvt to help
them and withdraw the SDF at once.
We are now rallying in front of the Parliament.
There are many persons marching around the Parliament.

NEVER KILL THEM!
THEY ARE FRIENDS OF US WHO LOVE PEACE AND CALL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE IN
IRAQ AND ALL OVER THE WORLD!!

Yours

Yoko Akimoto
Secretariat, ATTAC Japan
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