[R-G] Anti-war rallies - Germany, Japan

[ProletarianNews]

AP. 26 October 2002. Thousands of demonstrators turn out in Europe and
beyond to protest war against Iraq; Marchers Protest Plans for War
Against Iraq.

BERLIN and TOKYO -- Demanding an end to threats of an "unjustified" war
against Iraq, thousands of demonstrators gathered in cities across
Europe and beyond Saturday for a show of opposition to U.S. President
George W. Bush's policy toward Baghdad.

In Berlin, crowds of people brandishing placards that declared "War on
the imperialist war," "Stop Bush's campaign" and "No blood for oil,"
along with a few Iraqi and Palestinian flags, converged on the downtown
Alexanderplatz square and marched past the German Foreign Ministry.

Police estimated that up to 8,000 people took part in damp, windy
weather, while organizers put the number at 30,000. No trouble was
reported.

<P>Some 1,500 people turned out in Frankfurt and another 500 in Hamburg,
according to police. Hundreds also marched in Freiburg, under the banner
'No Colonial War for Oil.'

Another 1,500 rain-soaked demonstrators gathered under umbrellas outside
the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark and more than 1,000 hit the
streets in Stockholm, Sweden.

"Saddam Hussein is one of the absolutely worst dictators in the world
today ... but that doesn't justify the U.S.A.'s war plans," Gudrun
Schyman, leader of Sweden's former communist Left Party, told the crowd
in Stockholm.

"You don't disarm a regime by conducting an armed war."

In Tokyo, over 300 Japanese staged a "peace walk," holding up placards
urging governments to "stop the war before it starts."

At the front of the marchers were three men, each wearing a paper mask
depicting President Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair or Japanese
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Demonstrators carried a papier-mache
model of a Tomahawk cruise missile.

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ProletarianNews
http://www.utopia2000.org
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