L'obiezione di coscienza di due militari inglesi

[Carlo Gubitosa <c.gubitosa at peacelink.it>]

Fonte: Abc News Online - http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s821206.htm

British soldiers sent home for refusing to fight

Two British service personnel have been expelled from Kuwait because of 
dissident views on the war in Iraq.

The two service personnel separately expressed conscientious objections to 
the war in Iraq.

Their legal representative, Gilbert Blades, says the soldiers "don't want 
to be involved in killing innocent civilians".

Mr Blades says the soldiers were stationed in the Gulf before war began but 
decided not to participate after learning of limited international support 
for the conflict.

"When all these people who were giving protests of an unjust war, they said 
to themselves 'hang on a minute, what are we doing here?'" he said.

The Ministry of Defence has indicated the pair will not face punishment and 
says talk of troops' reservations about their role in the Gulf will be kept 
to a minimum.