Right to Refuse to Kill

The Right to Refuse to Kill programme

War Resisters' International's programme The Right to Refuse to Kill combines a wide range of activities to support conscientious objectors individually, as well as organised groups and movements for conscientious objection.

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08 Jan 2010
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A representative of the organisation Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg told RFE/RL that they have received a large number of phone calls from people complaining that local military recruitment offices "are literally hunting for young men on the streets, in supermarkets, and the subway to forcibly enlist them into the army", RFL/RL reported on 22 December 2009.

08 Jan 2010
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Enver Aydemir was arrested on 24 December 2009

On 24 December 2009, Turkish police arrested conscientious objector Enver Aydemir during a routine check at the ferry port in Kabataş, Istanbul. An arrest warrant for insubordination and possibly desertion, going back to his earlier arrest and detention in 2007, was discovered, and Enver Aydemir was transferred to Doğancılar police station and then to a military police station. He has now been transferred to Eskisehir Military Prison, where he is awaiting his trial.

08 Jan 2010
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On 6 December 2009, Finnish Independence Day (a very militarist event in the country), a woman conscientious objector declared her total objection in Finland. She declared: "I don't want to support a machinery of violence by any means, because it is not creating a happy and just future for us. Militaristic activities only sow and feed hatred and bitterness. We should use all our resources for building and maintaining a sustainable future."

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