Candle light march held in DU campus
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 10 2013:
A large number of students from different communities of the North East and concerned individuals held a candlelight march across Delhi University's North Campus yesterday against US imperialism and America's proposed intervention in the civil war in Syria.
The protest was organised by North East Forum for International Solidarity (NEFIS) which saw the participation of other progressive organisations like Krantikari Yuva Sangathan (KYS) and Centre for Struggling Women (CSW).
According to a statement, many teachers of DU also joined the candlelight march which began from the Arts faculty and culminated a the University's Metro Station.
Student activists who addressed the marchers highlighted how the international media were wrongly pushing through a propaganda campaign that aimed at preparing 'public opinion' for direct military intervention on the part of US imperialism and its other partners in Syria's civil war.
The protest was hence envisaged as part of an elementary duty for revolutionary youth across the world to unmask the real interests of imperialism and to oppose such intervention.
The slogans and speeches during the candlelight march clearly showed that the NE students and other members of the DU community realised that imperialism has nothing to offer to the Syrian people and the masses in the Middle East, the statement said.
NEFIS members and other participants read out an appeal that was addressed to the Syrian youth and impoverished working class.
The appeal read that regardless of religious and ethnic divisions, the Syrian youth should not trust the imperialists, neither trust Assad or the reactionary opposition nut to prepare and join their brothers and sisters and the masses of the Middle East in the common struggle against capitalism and imperialist oppression.
It was also stated that more revolutionary upsurges are in the process of breaking out throughout the whole region and it is here that the path lies for the liberation of the masses in the Arab World, the statement added.