Considerable people do not know the conscientious objection. No one would not be to hold rigour of it to them due to the advertising eagerness set up by the State.
The conscientious objection in time that service main road was set up under the presidency of General de Gaulle. Not that it wished at this point of the conscientious objectors, quite to the contrary, but which it became very difficult to refuse it. Thank you Louis Lecoin. Recognition of a refusal of the wearing of weapon by the incorporated young people, certe, but prohibition to make least publicity of it. It was in 1963." Consciencious objector ", the term appeared for the first time at the beginning of the century and indicated Gandhi and its partisans. The expression qualified in the beginning those which, " in the name of certain values, transgressed a law collectively in order to achieve a definite goal ". Its significance was restricted quickly not to concern but the individuals more refusing to take share with the war. In France, the conscientious objectors appear following the war 14-18. Since 1924, the first collective for the conscientious objection is set up. But until 1963, no measurement concerning the objection is taken. It is at that time, during the war of Algeria which the objectors enter on the French public scene. Some young people refuse to leave for Algeria the weapons to the hand and in the shantytowns of the Paris area will bring their support to Algerian. These young people pass quickly from the shantytowns to the prison. They will leave it only in December 1963. Other militants for non-violence express to obtain a statute of the conscientious objection is set up. Louis LECOIN, an old anarchist who, at 74 years, makes a hunger strike the 22 days is the best example. The whole of these actions allows finally the creation of a statute of the conscientious objection in 1963. This statute remains at the time very precarious and limited like a sentence of Gaulle illustrates it: " a statute of the conscientious objection of the agreement, but least possible objectors ". The diffusion of information concerning the conscientious objection was prohibited, the statute was not granted in all the cases and the assignments were made according to goodwill administration. Twenty years after, in 1983 a new law allows quasi automatic obtaining the statute and authorizes the diffusion of information concerning the conscientious objection. Since this date, the number of objectors in station did not cease increasing and reaches today approximately 13 000 per 4 000 organizations of greeting.
In 1991, the service in objection passes from 2 years to 20 months. Progressively, this duration regresses thanks to 3 months of vacation without balance which, taken at the end of the service does not make it possible not to have any more but 7 months additional compared to a military service.
1997 sound a turning of the conscientious objection. Fault of being able to limit the number of the statutes of conscientious objection, the State, which needs always more money, decides to sabre the number of organizations of greeting. Indeed, the organizations see themselves at this time there having to deal with 75 % of the pay of the objector (either 1700 francs per month). The number of proposal of station falls and of many objectors see themselves in search for station, without income nor social protection. Some are obliged to give up their statute.1997 see also the professionalisation of the army being set up. Young people having the chance to have been born into 79 will not have to answer any more stupid commands and a discipline abrutissante of the barracks.
Some negligible progress comes to reassure the objectors during their search. The State decides to deal with the social security of the objectors in search, then later, a circular of Martine Aubry will affirm that the search time is taken into account in the duration of the service.
One sees apparaitre the appointment citizen which will leave the place to the Call to the Preparation of Defense and the Army becomes a company which engages.MEFIONS US. The Army gives up the obligatory military service all the more to infiltrate in our schools. Defense becomes lesson and one can think that they will speak more than one military defense that civil.
For the moment of the conscientious objectors seeks stations in order to make the most interesting possible these 17 month obligatory. The Service of the Conscientious objection is not finished and the statute of conscientious objector should never be removed, we must " fight " for that.