Letter: Cheap pacifist talk costs lives

Saturday 10 April 1999 23:02 BST

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A N WILSON's "pacifist solution" is sadly undermined by his glibness ("Pacifism is the only answer to Sawoniuk and Arkan", 4 April). A peace invasion of Kosovo would, he said, "have to have been led by unarmed peace workers whose vanguard were prepared to be killed by Serbian forces". Whose unarmed sons and daughters did he have in mind... his or mine?

JUSTINE MARTIN

Tenerife, Canary Islands

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