No Business with Death at ILA
On occasion of the opening of the International Aeronautics and Space Exhibition (ILA) at the future Berlin-Brandenburg airport, Christine Buchholz, member of the Executive Board of DIE LINKE, declares:
International armaments corporations use the technophilia of hundreds of thousands and exhibit their military equipment at the ILA. The controversial drones technology is „a focal point of the exhibition“ according to ILA. Drones are exhibited on central places. The motto of the ILA „No fear of drones“ is more than cynical. In countries as Afghanistan, Pakistan, but also on the African continent whole regions fear the US army and its drones. Already more than 4000 people fell victim to the US drone war. DIE LINKE opposes the purchase of US drones for Bundeswehr and the development of a Euro-drone.
The Bundeswehr additionally uses the ILA to recruit young people for foreign assignments exhibiting war planes and helicopters. For DIE LINKE the Bundeswehr is no usual employer. We demand civil jobs for young people instead.
We support the protests of the peace movement against the military section of the ILA.