On the main Square in front of the Dutch parliament in The Hague, the Netherlands, organised by the Political Committee ‘Stari Most’ (PCSM), Bosnian youth organisation Mladi Bosna i Herzegovina (Mladi BiH), Bosnian Islamic Association (IZBN/IVBN), Bosnian Platform and the Interchurch Peace Council – Pax Christi.

Unfortunately one or more ICHI-(board)members were unable to attend the Srebrenica commemorations of 11 July 2008 and 11 July 2009 in The Hague; possibly ICHI-sympathisers were present at these events.

See further www.ikvpaxchristi.nl for announcement and press release.

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As ICHI still has a few members – undoubtedly due to our radical views and the given that alas many regard the concept of ‘humanitarian intervention’ as a tainted one since the (justified) controversies surrounding ‘Iraq’ and the ‘War on Terror’ – it has a limited capacity to undertake public actions.

This is why from early 2006 onwards we have sought contact with other interventionist action groups whose standpoints partially resemble ours, like the Save Darfur Coalition (www.SaveDarfur.org), Genocide Intervention Network (www.genocideintervention.net) and Enough! (http://enoughproject.org).

We have regularly supported and signed particularly the petitions of Save Darfur directed at American policymakers; often we could and were allowed to interpose our own more far-reaching standpoints and suggestions in the (standard) petition texts.

An example:

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The movie – nominated for an Oscar for best foreign movie – is about the Palestinian friends Khaled and Said who are ‘chosen’ to carry a suicide attack in Tel Aviv. After a last evening with their families, to whom they are not allowed to tell of their pending death, they leave with bombs on their bodies to the border post.

NB: on 17 January 2006 Paradise Now was awarded in Los Angeles with the Golden Globe for best non-English language movie.

(editor: Hany Abu-Assad, Netherlands 2005, 90 min.)

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