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in the campaign War is not a game

demining Is it fun? Would you let your hij @ fired a gun? Do you find it fun shooting a tank? Dying of Laughter is fun, what a shot? Do you like your hij @ s to approach armed people? Because we do not want them children s learning to kill, demand the departure of the army of Juvenalia.

A year in Juvenalia we see the disgusting spectacle of how the military offered to entertain the young and small in Madrid with activities that are not a game. Therefore, anti-military campaign "War is not a game make nonviolent action and complaint to be the withdrawal of the army of any fair and young child during the duration Juvenalia.

What is the campaign "War is not a game"?

WHAT - The campaign "War is not a game" looks out of the Army and the Armed Forces, and any armed force of all the fairs for children, youth and / or employment that are organized throughout the year by various parts of the English state. WHO

- This campaign was driven initially by the Assembly of Madrid Antimilitarista, but now about 30 organizations around the state have signed the manifesto. WHEN

- This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the fair Juvenalia in Madrid, which will run from 19 to 28 December 2008 at the Instituto Ferial de Madrid (IFEMA), organized by Directorate General of Youth Ministry of Sports of the Community of Madrid, to which we publicly accountable for the presence of armed forces at the fair. WHERE

- There are many places where there have been demonstrations against the presence of the army and armed forces in children's fairs. In Jerez social movements in the area got out of the army in Juvelandia fair, and there have been similar demonstrations in Barcelona (Hall of Education), Alicante ( Educ @ uses ), Valencia (Expojove) ... WHY

- In theory, Juvenalia looking for as the definition of the Directorate General of Youth, "youth activities and the promotion of values \u200b\u200band the integral formation of young people through leisure, sport and participation . Groups and individuals that drive the campaign's objectives are consistent with a fair seeks as Juvenalia - "alternative entertainment" - with the presence of armed forces. uncritical exhibition of military equipment-tanks, guns, helicopter gunships ...- or activities as "uplifting" as search and demining.

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The Army war games sold

pacifists denounced the presence of the Armed Forces Juvenalia

JAVIER SALAS - Madrid - 21/12/2008 21:58 ( PUBLIC)

"I had so much to give, so much to tell!". Some kids sing the chorus shouting the latest success in a karaoke Nena. Specifically, the karaoke booth that the Armed Forces have in Juvenalia, the fair child and youth leisure held for years in Madrid and is filled with families on weekends.

With the colors of the English flag painted on their cheeks, the kids have fun singing along with an armored car in which other kids are cast full of curiosity. While queuing to launch a zip line from four feet high, others play in Call of Duty video game, a war epic that explores the war firsthand.

"It's an amusement park persimmon," complains one member of the Assembly of Madrid Antimilitarista, a group that has gathered in the pavilion Ifema to seek "out of the army and the armed forces" of this event designed for children. Police and Civil Guard also have their place in Juvenalia.

Just ten peace activists of this group participate in the symbolic action complaint, both parents and children welcome with sympathy and skepticism, an anecdote in a fun morning of stories. Dressed in white overalls and masks for protection from the "virus of the military", display a banner next to the space occupied by the Ministry of Defence.

Next, the security of the facility are invited to leave the ward, and they deliver obedient: "We will not create problems, only to get parents to our complaint." War is not a game , which is the name this season, take their leaflets to the fair along this week, though few visitors who catch them with genuine interest.

antimilitarists point where children pretending to run guns and parachuting, Army leaders show the same young, none older than 12 years, writing custom postcards to military personnel serving in international missions.

"What passes a happy holiday, wherever you are, you can read in one of the many handwritten cards are already stacked. Colonel Modesto Ruiz Cruz, military most senior of those present and Head of Collection, defends the presence of the armed forces in Juvenalia and says he has not come to see the action of the pacifists. "We have no problems with them, any opinion is respectable and should have a space for expression," he said.

Entertain the kids

The presence of this playful version of the Army in the IFEMA pavilions is the responsibility of the Directorate General of Military Recruitment and Training, which aims to "bring it to the English society facilitate knowledge ". A presence that had to step up after that would eliminate the mandatory military service in 2001. Since then, space has continued to grow.

"We are here to entertain the kids," he says, "and we delighted." Military vocations shortage and any effort on their part is valid if you can get your reward.

"It's about planting a seed that can help military arising in the future," says Ruiz. Colonel Aviation illustrates his personal commitment with an anecdote: "Before a child has told me that most wanted to be an engineer and I have pointed out that there is a whole body for engineers in the Army." "Ultimately Ruiz-ditch, "we want children to see that we are as normal as their parents."

Although they are together, there is a clear competition: the Air Force, the Navy Land and pretend that children are fixed on them, and not in others, to enter the professional ranks in future.

One idea that particularly bothered the anti-military group, which presents the military as "a more gigs." For now, the Army is sold to the children with games, but when they grow up with the candy will make a steady income to pay the mortgage.