Thanks for posting this Sarah. He sounds like a very sensible man! Jerry
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 5:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Peter Tatchell NJC I've been surprised to see no discussion on the list about the brilliant (IMO) British gay rights campaigner, Peter Tatchell, and his efforts in Paris to arrest Robert Mugabe for human rights violations. Sorry to those who don't like the links, but here's another one for those who do: a good write-up of Tatchell in today's Independent, and also an outline of Tatchell's suggestion as an alternative to war in Iraq, which is the only one I've heard that could work. "Mr Tatchell, by the way, is way ahead of both hawks and doves in his own analysis of what should be done about Saddam Hussein. He rejects war, but dislikes the succour such a position gives to that dictator as well. He prescribes a regime-change-from-within strategy which involves funding satellite TV and radio stations to break Saddam's media censorship, and allow the co-ordination of the mounting of a campaign of civil resistance in the country. He advocates training and arming opposition forces in the no-fly zones in the north and south. In this way, he contends, a civilian and military rebellion would avoid the accusation of neo-imperialism and create conditions that would be likely to ensure a more stable and enduring democracy. This, of course, is the very scenario that the US backed away from when the last Gulf war ended." http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/deborah_orr/story.jsp?s tory=380116 Sarah
