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For a Brighter World

STOP  THIS   MADNESS


Desh-Pardesh, an organisation of South Asian people from Toronto in Canada, demonstrated against the nuclear tests by India and Pakistan to commemorate Hiroshima Day at Nathan Square, Toronto on 9 August. In a leaflet issued on the occasion, it condemned "all steps towards weaponisation, deployment and a nuclear arms race in South Asia". It said, "No government has the `right’ to place tens and hundreds of millions of people under the constant threat of nuclear annihilation. It called on both the governments to "stop the madness". It pledged its support "to all initiatives inside South Asia aimed at halting the nuclearisation of the sub-continent and at settling conflicts through non-violent and political means and to all initiatives outside South Asia aimed at accelerating worldwide nuclear disarmament." It has challenged the claim made by both the governments of enjoying the support of their respective communities overseas. It has declared that in reality the Indians and Pakistanis in Canada all stand "in defiance of the Indian and Pakistani governments’ decision to nuclearise the sub-continent." It criticised the government of Canada also and called upon it "to desist from its hypocritical policy of selling nuclear technologies that contribute to nuclear weaponisation."

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