[ Saturday, November 06, 2004 ]
Prizewinner backs Iraqi ‘resistance’
Award-winning Indian novelist Arundhati Roy, who will be presented this week with an Australian peace prize, has defended her views that people should join what she calls the Iraqi resistance.She said activists and resistance movements “need to understand that Iraq is engaging in the frontlines of empire and we have to throw our weight behind the Iraqi resistance”.“We can’t assume that resistance means terrorism because that would be playing right into the hands of the occupation”“We can’t assume that resistance means terrorism because that would be playing right into the hands of the occupation,” she said.Roy, who will be presented on Thursday with the award, funded by the city of Sydney, previously branded US President George Bush as a “terrorist” and described Australia’s military presence in Iraq as “inexcusable”.
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