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Peace campaigner Ben Griffin joined the British Army in 1997. He served in Northern Ireland, Macedonia and Afghanistan before being deployed to Baghdad in 2005, where he became morally disillusioned about the Iraq war. After three months he returned to the UK on leave and decided he could not return. Resistance to killing from within the military has a long history. Ben talks about lesser-known acts of resistance to war in post-9/11 conflicts and discusses the actions and plight of US Army Soldier and WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning.
Recorded at Truth, Mysteries and New Frontiers [Glastonbury Symposium], July 2013
glastonburysymposium.co.uk
Peace campaigner Ben Griffin joined the British Army in 1997. He served in Northern Ireland, Macedonia and Afghanistan before being deployed to Baghdad in 2005, where he became morally disillusioned about the Iraq war. After three months he returned to the UK on leave and decided he could not return. Resistance to killing from within the military has a long history. Ben talks about lesser-known acts of resistance to war in post-9/11 conflicts and discusses the actions and plight of US Army Soldier and WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning.
Recorded at Truth, Mysteries and New Frontiers [Glastonbury Symposium], July 2013
glastonburysymposium.co.uk
