Flying kite for peace in March

Sir, – As February passes into a new month, March is also the month when many across the world will go to their local park or seashore and fly a kite: a movement started in Afghanistan by a small boy some years back.

When the skies were clear and blue over his village he would take his homemade kite out into the field and fly it high into the air.

When asked “why?” he would tell them when the skies are clear “that is when the Americans and British fly their drones over my village”.

“If they see me fly my kite they will not bomb and kill my family”.

This selfless action by the boy, putting himself in harm’s way to save his family, started a movement across the world.

Each March people will go to their local park or seashore and “Fly a Kite, not a Drone”.

The British Government is complicit in the murder of innocent men women and children across the world by using drones to take out people they consider “Terrorists”.

There’s no trial, no jury, they simply take them out and everyone within the house or car that they happen to be in at the time.

When someone straps a bomb to their body and blows themselves up on a London train, bus, or drives a lorry or car into innocent bystanders going about their lawful business we find it abhorrent and ask why.

We can not go into foreign lands and commit such atrocities ourselves and expect no reaction.

This March I too will fly my kite. It will be a symbolic kite, for I will be writing to my MP, MSP, the newspapers, flying my kite not a drone.

We all have a voice and a vote.

War is a crime against humanity. Walter Hamilton. Flat 3 City Park, City Road, St. Andrews.

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