Terror groups came together in Denmark over the weekend for a conference on anti-terror laws. The "Anti-Terrorism Legislation, Political Rights and International Solidarity" conference was designed to "discuss the supposed war against terror which we see as a global menace against democratic rights," conference spokesman Jens Henneberg Andersen said.
Among the groups present were Batasuna, the political wing of armed Basque separatist group ETA, the Palestinian National Council, the Prensa Rural from Colombia, the Bayan Muna from the Philippines, and Sweden's Demokratiuppropet. The Danish NGO Rebellion was the host. In October, a Rebellion spokesman was indicted under the 2002 Danish anti-terrorist laws for giving money to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
"Violent conflicts... should be resolved with dialogue and by negotiation and not just by putting one of the other party into the terrorist category," Henneberg Andersen said.
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