Press Release -03/09/2008
Jill Evans MEP and Dafydd Iwan will join the Rev. Guto Prys ap Gwynfor to light a flame of peace at the memorial at Penyberth, near Pwllheli on Monday 8th September at 2pm. The event will commemorate the fire lit by Saunders Lewis, Rev. Lewis Valentine and DJ Davies to stop the building of a bombing school there in 1936. The meeting will send a clear message to the politicians in Cardiff Bay and London of the need to oppose the proposed military academy at St Athan. The following is a declaration by The Fellowship of Reconciliation in Wales, which is an international faith based peace movement , who have organised this event for their opposition to the St Athan military academy:
“We oppose the proposed military academy at St Athan for the following reasons:
1.Christian morality declares that by loving the enemy we can resolve conflict, not by killing and destroying the property of the enemy.
2. The privatising of military training will have a destabilising effect and means there will be no public accountability for activities there and the profit motive will prevail for the benefit of the shareholders of the private consortium.
3. The fragile Welshness of the Vale o Glamorgan will be further eroded by the influx of personnel from elsewhere.”
