PUCL urges PM Modi to break silence on “illegal war on Iran”

The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has written an open
letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging for breaking of
“unconstitutional silence” of the Government of India on the “illegal”
war on Iran.

The government should condemn the war on Iran,the NGO demanded in the
letter written to PM Modi on Thursday. “The invasion of Iran has no
legal, moral or ethical justification and must be condemned in the
strongest possible terms. This is the mandate of both international
law as well as the Indian Constitution”, the four-page letter written
under joint signatures by PUCL national president Kavita Srivastava
and general secretary V Suresh opined.

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If this armed aggression is not condemned by the world’s largest
democracy, it becomes one more nail in the coffin of the international
legal order, Srivastava and Suresh wrote. “Each time such violations
pass without condemnation, the principle of impunity by the powerful
gets sanctified.”

In the context of a willingness to tear down the rules based order by
the powerful, India’s immoral silence highlights a dangerous
backsliding from our historically pre-eminent position as a
non-aligned power. India had stood for an international rules based
order based on resolving disputes through dialogue and discussion”.

“India should, therefore, have had a clear unequivocal condemnation of
the unprovoked war against Iran, drawing her position both from
India’s anti-colonial heritage as well as her Constitution”, the PUCL
leaders opined.