At Stop the War’s CEASEFIRE NOW demonstration on August 5, they asked people to bring children’s shoes to lay at the Cenotaph in Whitehall to signify the high proportion of fatalities among young children resulting from Israel’s barbaric attacks on Lebanon’s civilian areas, then taking place. The response was extraordinary and very moving and after the demonstration Stop the War collected a huge number of shoes.

They have now given the shoes collected at the CEASEFIRE NOW demonstration to Handicap International UK, which is organising the 2006 PYRAMID OF SHOES in Hyde Park on Saturday 14 October, to support the international campaign against cluster bombs. The main focus of the event is the construction of a PYRAMID OF SHOES, each shoe representing a life or limb lost to a cluster bomb.

The Pyramid of Shoes event has added significance for Stop the War, given the many protests that they organised against Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon. One of Israel’s innumerable war crimes was the carpet bombing of southern Lebanon with more than one million cluster bomblets, which it is predicted will kill and maim hundreds of civilians in the months, or even years, to come.

Members of the public are asked to participate in the Pyramid of Shoes event in Hyde Park on 14 October by bringing a pair of shoes to show their support for victims and populations under threat of cluster bombs worldwide.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT CLUSTER BOMBS IN LEBANON AND THE WORK OF HANDICAP INTERNATIONAL UK, GO HERE!

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