Remember the Afghani Dead

On Armistice Day much attention will be focused on British military personnel killed in the war in Afghanistan. What will not receive any media attention are the many thousands of Afghanis who have been killed by British and other NATO forces. It has been estimated that for each dead British soldier several hundred Afghanis have been killed by British forces. What is more, the British Army has invaded Afghanistan on a number of previous occasions going back to 1838.



At 2.00pm on Saturday, 7 November Nottingham Stop the War Coalition will meet in the Old Market Square to set up a campaigning street stall in order to give out leaflets and get people to sign the petition demanding withdrawal of British forces from Afghanistan.



At 2:30pm we will go up Friar Lane to Nottingham Castle in order to lay a wreath on the memorial in the grounds of the Castle to British soldiers who died in the Afghan War during the 1870s.



The wreath will be in remembrance of all the Afghanis killed by British forces in both the present and past wars. We will be carrying a large black coffin lid to represent the Afghani dead.


Do come along, preferably dressed in black, and get others to do so.

 nottingham.stopwar@ntlworld.com www.nottinghamagainstwar.org.uk