The planet protests against the war in Iraq

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A wave of anti -war rallies swept on Friday around the world. The last time, such protests took place during the Vietnam War.

Yemen - 4 dead

In the capital of Yemen on Friday, three participants in the anti -war demonstration and one policeman were killed. This happened as a result of a collision of tens of thousands of demonstrators with the police.

During the collision, 18 people were injured. Dozens of people were arrested. According to police, some demonstrators were armed.

Riots during the Primesky demonstrations were also awarded on Friday in the Jordanian city of Maan, ITAR-TASS reports. According to eyewitnesses, thousands of demonstrators entered into skirmishes with the police who used tear gas against them.

San Francisco

On Thursday , the police arrested in San Francisco 1 thousand demonstrators who protested against the war in Iraq.

Participants in protest against the war in Iraq use new tactics. Demonstrators are dispersed by groups in various quarters of the city, several people are connected in a sitting position in the center of the roadway of important intersections, and they pin themselves to the fences to paralyze the transport of the city.

Police are trying to put things in order in the city. In order not to inflict injuries and wounds, each arrested has to endure a four police officer.

Local media representatives, referring to the information received from the police, note that since the beginning of military operations in Iraq, the number of protests participating in the protests has increased sharply. In this regard, the side with the police in the pacification of the demonstrators is involved in firefighters.

In addition, participants in the protest against the war in Iraq occupied the building of the University of California in Berkeley.

Vishinton

More than 40 police vehicles arrived on Thursday in the first half for one of the main bridges across the Potomak River in the center of Washington, where a group of anti -war activists blocked the urban movement, protesting against the beginning of the war in Iraq.

The police had to use power and pepper gas to stop the action. The authorities and the Washington police are preparing for a new wave of anti -war performances.

Participants will gather one of these shares about 1:00 in Moscow and then move to the White House.

The police are now urgently taking additional measures to ensure order and security throughout Washington.

Türkiye: Istanbul

Turkish police used tear gas to disperse anti -war demonstration in Istanbul. According to RIA Novosti, the incident occurred after Friday prayer before the Bayazid mosque, where about five thousand believers protested against the war in Iraq.

They shouted: “Be cursed by the United States!”, “The USA is out of the Middle East!”, “Türkiye is not Israel!” The manifestants burned the American and Israeli flags. Several people are detained.

Almost 100 thousand Kurds protested against the US military in Iraq in the city of Diyarbakyr in the southeast of the country. The manifestations were organized on the occasion of the Kurdish New Year - the Neurous holiday - the only legal Kurdish party Dehap (the Democratic Party of the people). Any incidents in Diyarbakyr are not reported.

Italy: Rome, Milan, Venice, Naples

In Milan, under the banners of the largest trade union associations Cgil, Cisl, Uil, 150 thousand manifestants stood up. The same number of demonstrators gathered in Emilia, 60 thousand - in Bologna.

The former President of Skalfaro and Nobel laureate Rita Montalcini, along with union members, pacifists and students, took part in the anti -war rally in Rome. About this writes La Stampa in the material, the translation of which is published by Inopressa.ru .

In Venice, the workers blocked the pier. In Turin, at noon, all the bells rang on all churches, and 80 thousand people took part in the demonstration that passed through the whole city.

The crowded rally was held in Florence. In Milan, Rome, Naples, the pacifists headed to the railway stations, lay on the way and blocked trains. In Bergamo, traffic on one of the main highways was blocked.

Anti -war measures in a short time covered the whole of Italy. “We will protest until the war lasts,” said one of the participants in the protest. “I saw a war, and I no longer want its repetition,” said an elderly woman with an anti -war flag.

Belgium: Brussels

In Brussels, about 3 thousand people took part in the protest against the war in Iraq. They gathered in front of the US Embassy in Brussels and demanded the end of the war in Iraq.

After about 500 out of 3 thousand participants in the demonstration began to be thrown by the US Embassy with stones and bottles of red paint, the police were forced to use tear gas and wateringles. In response, the demonstrators began to be thrown by stones of the police.

The incident occurred near the buildings of the European Union, in which the EU summit was opened at that moment.

Germany: 150 cities

In Germany, 5 thousand people took part in a demonstration of protest against the war in Iraq near the headquarters of the US Ground Forces in Europe in Heidelberg .

So far, no data on the clashes of demonstrators with the police from Heidelberg have received.

According to the police, on Thursday day, about 300 schoolchildren were held here on the Sitting Demonstration-Blockade. Since high school students did not want to voluntarily disperse, law enforcement officers had to take them away from here in their hands.

In total, during Thursday, anti -American and anti -war protests took place in about 150 cities of Germany.

In the morning and afternoon, the public association "Youth against the war" acted as their organizer. According to him, "much more than 100 thousand students and high school students, chanting anti -American slogans, took to the streets of German cities.

Only in Berlin , according to the police, in the demonstration of the Brandenburg gate, 50 thousand young people participated on Thursday day. The organizers of the action called another figure - 70 thousand.

Meanwhile, the police confirmed that 10 thousand schoolchildren and students took part in Stuttgart during the day in the demonstration, and 6 thousand young people in Munich in Rostok .

In the evening on Thursday, demonstrators of the older were already published on the central square of German cities - those who were busy at work during the day. They followed the appeal of trade unions, various parties and public associations, as well as churches and confessional societies. So, according to the first data of law enforcement agencies, 40 thousand people gathered for an alexander-Platz in Berlin.

From Leipzig it was reported that in the central part of the city, according to the organizers of the anti -war action, 40 thousand people also gathered, but the police so far “adjusted” this figure up to 25 thousand.

In the evening, an anti -war rally took place in Dresden in the evening, which gathered 8 thousand people, and 3 thousand people participated in Dortmund and Munich in protests.

Different demonstrations are also reported from Frankfurt-on-Maine, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Bremen, Frankfurt-on-Oder and Clotbus . Even in the dawn on the island of Rügen on Thursday evening, US aggression in Iraq was protested on Thursday.

On Friday in Berlin (16:00 Moscow time), a “sitting show-block” is planned by the US Embassy in Berlin, which was called by the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS).

UK: London

In the UK, mass protests are held in connection with Washington and London War against Baghdad. In the center of London, several hundred students of the capital's universities and school students who chant anti -government slogans, demanding the end of the war against Iraq, gathered on Parliamentary Square.

Participants in the action arrange sitting pickets, blocking the movement. According to the British media, the manifestations are also held in Edinburgh, Manchester and a number of other cities.

Egypt: Cairo

In the Egyptian capital, a thousands of mass manifestation against the war in Iraq began. Hundreds of Muslims, who came to the Al-Azhar Islamic University for Friday prayer, chant anti-American slogans, reports ITAR-TASS. Dozens of police and ambulance cars are pulled to the venue for a demonstration of protest against the war in Iraq. All streets and lanes entering the university area are blocked by security forces.

The Egyptian police uses watering water and batons to stop unrest. Gradually, new participants joined the demonstration. At the moment, their number has reached about 50 thousand.

On the eve of the clashes of the demonstrators protesting against the war in Iraq, more than 150 Egyptians were injured with the police in Cairo. Crowds of angry people tried to break through to the American embassy in the city center, and the police were forced to use clubs against them. Many of the participants in the riots were arrested.

In total, more than 100 thousand people took part in the Egyptian capital of anti -American demonstrations in the Egyptian capital.

Norway: Oslo, Bergen

Mass manifestations against the war of the United States in Iraq were held on Thursday evening in Oslo, Bergen and other major cities of Norway. About 4 thousand people gathered in the Norwegian capital on the call of the Mirny Initiative against War in Iraq. “Our organization includes over 180 other organizations with a total number of about 800 thousand people,” her representative Erling Borgen said, speaking to Storting (parliament). According to him, now it is very important to unite all forces against the United States that violate international law. "

Hungary: Budapest

The war in Iraq caused a decisive protest of many Hungarian organizations and associations that turned to ordinary Hungarians with an appeal to take an active part in anti -war rallies and demonstrations in the central square of the capital in front of the parliament building and other cities of the country. Activists of one of them held a protest in front of the US Embassy in Budapest, demanding an immediate termination of a military operation, which was started without a corresponding decision of the UN Security Council.

INDIA

On Friday, the Indian Police of the Indian state was forced to use tear gas and batons for the dispersal of demonstrators in the city of Masuma, who protested against the war in Iraq, RIA Novosti reports.

According to the police representative, hundreds of demonstrators, mainly representatives of the Muslim community, came out with anti -war and anti -American slogans. A clash with the police occurred after the demonstrators deviated from the route and tried to break through the police cordon to the central square.

Currently, all shops, state, public, educational institutions in the city are closed, but the situation is under the control of the authorities.

Similar protest demonstrations were held in other cities in the north and in the Central Kashmir.

MOROCCO

The mass demonstration of protest against the war in Iraq was held at the walls of the Morocco Parliament in Rabat. The action was organized by the non -governmental organization "Initial in support of Iraq", its participants decisively condemned the US military operation in Iraq. The rally took place without incidents, under vigilant control of representatives of law enforcement agencies. On Thursday, King Morocco Mohammed VI turned to the Moroccans with a call to maintain "judgment and discipline." At the same time, the monarch admitted that the events in Iraq are acquiring a very "dangerous character."

Cyprus: Larnaka

The demonstration against the war in Iraq took place late in the evening of Thursday in the Cyprus capital. About 600 anti -war activists took part in it. The action was organized by the "Cyprus Social Forum". The participants in the action demanded that the United States and their allies immediate termination of hostilities in Iraq, who pose a real threat to the life of the civilian population of this country. The demonstration ended with clashes of its participants with the police, which happens in Cyprus extremely rarely.

Spain: Madrid, Barcelona

In Spain, in the morning, thousands of demonstrations are held against the war in Iraq. Tens of thousands of students and teachers of Madrid and Barcelona blocked the centers of these cities, speaking under the slogan "Stop the country to stop the war!" In the Spanish capital, police dispersed students who tried to break into the parliament building to express their protest there. During the collision, one student was seriously wounded by the head.

In Barcelona, ​​about 50 thousand students and teachers conducted a demonstration near the US Consulate building, throwing it with eggs and tomatoes, demanding the resignation of the government.

Protest shares took place in many other cities of Spain. High school students joined students and teachers. In different regions of the country, they overlapped traffic on the streets and motorways.

Throughout Spain, over the buildings of almost all universities and secondary schools, national flags are lowered as a sign of mourning for future victims of the war in Iraq. They were also visible over many city halls, whose employees went out onto the streets and arranged sitting strikes.

Australia: Sydney, Melbourne

Mass protests were held throughout the country against the beginning of a military operation in Iraq and the participation of Australia in it. In all the largest cities of the country, tens of thousands of Australians entered the streets.

The largest demonstration took place in Sydney . The number of participants in the action was approaching 20 thousand. They walked along the central streets of the city with demands to stop the war and return to the homeland of the Australian military. The central part of the city was almost completely paralyzed for several hours.

The fierce fights of the demonstrators with the police took place in front of Prime Minister John Howard.

In Melbourne , more than 10 thousand people took part in the march of protest through the central streets of the city. In Brisben, the number of participants in anti -war demonstrations exceeded 5 thousand.

POLAND

More than 80 female organizations of Poland, which are part of the election coalition of women, protest against the sending of Polish soldiers to the war zone against Iraq.

“By your decision to plunge the country into an international adventure, you are harmful to Poland and Polish citizens,” they say in an open letter sent to Prime Minister Lesheku Miller.

Polish female organizations believe that the participation of Poland in the war in the Persian Gulf violates the elementary principles of international law, the country's constitution and universally recognized human rights. They also believe that the "ill -conceived decision to support war" may prevent Poland from entering the European Union.

"We are outraged by the fact that the Polish authorities supported the military intervention against Iraq," the authors write further in a letter, recalling that, like every military conflict, "this decision to start a war will lead to the death of thousands of innocent women and children."

Women's organizations also sent a similar letter to Polish President Alexander Kvasinevsky.

Jordan: Amman

In Jordan, at least a thousand students have demonstrated to condemn the war against Iraq. The demonstration of Jordanian students did without unrest and ended calmly. It took place on the territory of the university town in Aman. The demonstrators chanted the slogans: “Iraq! We are with you!”, “There is no God except Allah!”, “Allah is great!” In their hands they carried green Muslim banners and banners with inscriptions: "First Afghanistan, now Iraq, and tomorrow?"

Holland: Amsterdam, Hague

Numerous demonstrations and protests against the war in Iraq were held on Friday night in several cities of Holland.

In Amsterdam, demonstrations took place in several squares of the city, hundreds of people took part in them. Demonstrators carried posters with the demands to "stop the war for the sake of oil" and "give the world a chance." Cleans of demonstrators with the police were observed.

Members of the labor party, the party of the Green, the Socialist Party and the Democrats-66 party took part in the protest rallies.

Many Muslims participated in the manifestations - immigrants from Turkey, Morocco and Tunisia.

According to recent sociological surveys, more than 50 percent of the Dutch are considered the culprit of the US war.

More than 40 percent of the respondents are sure that the fighting will be long and stubborn, and almost 75 percent think that the Americans will not be able to arrest Saddam Hussein, as they could not catch the Osama Ben Laden before.

In the Hague, the police strengthened the protection of foreign embassies, primarily the countries participating in the hostilities against Iraq. The police blocked traffic in the city center, where the US embassies are located, the American embassy has armored cars and special forces.

A police post is also put up at the Iraq embassy.

Switzerland: Geneva, Bern

The beginning of the military operation of the United States and its allies in Iraq caused a mass protest in Switzerland.

According to the ATS agency, on Thursday in the 30 largest cities of the country under the slogans: "No war!", "There is no bloodshed for the sake of oil!", "The world of Iraq!" - Anti -American manifestations passed, in which about 40 thousand people took part, mostly youth.

In Bern and Geneva , 15 thousand demonstrators were blocked by US diplomatic missions, which forced the special forces of the police to apply tear gas against participants in the protest in Geneva.

Как сообщается, военная операция США, "поставивших силу выше права", в четверг подверглась осуждению со стороны всех ведущих политических партий страны, представленных в федеральном парламенте. По мнению председателя нижней палаты Ива Кристена, "Ирак не является сегодня источником такой опасности, которая оправдывала бы немедленное применение военной силы", сообщает РИА 'Новости' .

Представитель партии "зеленых" Патрис Мюни выразил возмущение попытками американской администрации "выдать побоище за средство оздоровления общества". Председатель социал-демократической партии Кристана Бруннер подчеркнула, что операция в Ираке является политической ошибкой США, ибо "такие ценности, как демократия, мир и примат права, не могут быть навязаны посредством войны".

Швейцария также прекращает государственный экспорт военных материалов, которые могут быть использованы в рамках вооруженной интервенции США в Ираке.

ФРАНЦИЯ: ПАРИЖ

Крупнейшая за всю историю антиамериканская манифестация прошла в четверг в Париже. Она собрала у посольства США более 40 тыс. человек - молодежи, политиков самых разных спектров, а также многочисленных выходцев из стран Среднего Востока и Африки. Война в Ираке для американцев - лишь повод завладеть нефтяными богатствами этой страны, уверены большинство манифестантов. Крупная манифестация прошла сегодня и перед зданием консульства США в Марселе.

ЮАР: ПРЕТОРИЯ

В знак протеста против нападения на Ирак международной коалиции во главе с США в ЮАР начато бессрочное пикетирование посольства США в Претории и консульств в Йоханнесбурге, Дурбане и Кейптауне. Оно организовано общественной организацией "Антивоенная коалиция".

Представитель организации Салим Валли заявил, что участники акции будут продолжать ее, пока лидеры США не услышат призыв миролюбивых людей планеты прекратить войну против Ирака.

MEXICO

Мексика выступает против войны в Ираке и сожалеет о гибели людей в ходе боевых действий, заявил сегодня президент Мексики Висенте Фокс. Он подчеркнул, что Мексика, являясь непостоянным членом Совета Безопасности ООН, готова в рамках международного сообщества принять самое активное участие в решении гуманитарных проблем восстановления Ирака.

ЧЕХИЯ: ПРАГА

В Праге в четверг прошла демонстрация протеста против войны в Ираке, организованная по инициативе антивоенных молодежных организаций чешской столицы. В ней приняли участие 600 человек.

CUBA

С решительным осуждением начала военной операции США против Ирака выступил в четверг министр иностранных дел Кубы Фелипе Перес Роке. Выступая на заседании Комиссии ООН по правам человека в Женеве он отметил, что акция Вашингтона "превращает в мираж" принцип права наций на самоопределение и суверенитет. "Вся планета превратилась сейчас в заложника" решений, принятых державой, которая не признает международные соглашения и "действует, исключительно исходя из собственных интересов", сказал министр.

ПОРТУГАЛИЯ: ЛИССАБОН

Более тысячи человек приняли в четверг участие в антивоенной демонстрации у американского посольства в Лиссабоне. В рядах манифестантов преобладали красные и белые знамена, отличающие сторонников компартии и профсоюзов, сообщает ИТАР-ТАСС.

В этот же день в парламенте Португалии произошел политический инцидент. Депутаты Левого блока покинули зал заседаний в знак протеста против поддержки большинством парламентариев резолюции, осуждающей их появление в Национальной ассамблее в черных майках с надписью "Не от нашего имени".

Как пояснили сами представители блока, тем самым они хотели подчеркнуть свое несогласие с решением правительства страны оказать политическую поддержку действиям США в Ираке.

ФИНЛЯНДИЯ: ХЕЛЬСИНКИ, ТУРКУ

Демонстрация протеста против военной операции США в Ираке прошла в четверг вечером в столице Финляндии. В манифестации, организованной гражданской коалицией "Нет атаке на Ирак", в состав которой входят более 50 общественных организаций, приняли участие около 3 тыс. человек.

Демонстрации протеста прошли также в таких крупных городах, как Оулу, Турку, Ювяскюля.

Внешнеполитическое руководство Финляндии считает достойным сожаления тот факт, что США и их союзники начали военные действия против Ирака. Нельзя одобрить использование военной силы без санкции Совета Безопасности ООН, отметила президент страны Тарья Халонен.

Против войны выступили родственники жертв терактов 11 сентября

Группа, объединяющая членов семей жертв терактов 11 сентября в Нью-Йорке и Вашингтоне, осудила нападение США на Ирак.

В заявлении группы "Семьи 11 сентября за мирное завтра", распространенном в четверг, нападение на Ирак расценивается как "незаконное, безнравственное и необоснованное".

Авторы документа пояснили, что делают это заявление, потому что знают, что такое испытать "шок и трепет", и не хотят, чтобы "другие невинные семейства перенесли боль и печаль, которую вынесли мы".

В то же время группа осудила режим президента Ирака Саддама Хусейна и выразила поддержку американским солдатам.

При этом авторы документа отметили, что гибель в результате военных действий мирных жителей и последствия разрушения окружающей среды и инфраструктуры "приведут к многим смертям в будущем".

Члены группы посетили Кабул, Хиросиму и Багдад, выражая неприятие военной агрессии как ответа на терроризм.

RUSSIA

ОМСК . В антивоенном митинге в Омске приняли участие сотни студентов, школьников и преподавателей. Участники митинга, сообщает ИТАР-ТАСС, шли под лозунгами "Ирак - не враг", "Третьей мировой не бывать". Молодежь, общественные и политические организации Омска поддерживают общемировую акцию против войны в Ираке и намерены координировать свои усилия с мировой общественностью, говорится в резолюции митинга.

НИЖНИЙ НОВГОРОД . Свыше 200 студентов из арабских стран, обучающихся в Архитектурно-строительном университете и медицинской академии Нижнего Новгорода, выступили против войны в Ираке. "Страшно подумать, что мы учимся только для того, чтобы вытаскивать пули из тел родных и друзей", - говорят иракские студенты-медики. Некоторые преподаватели также присоединились к акции протеста своих студентов.

ВЛАДИВОСТОК . Демонстрация протеста прошла и во Владивостоке. Манифестанты жгли американские флаги у генконсульства США, выступая против военной операции США в Ираке. Как сообщает ИТАР-ТАСС, в пикетах у генконсульства стояли представители ЛДПР и КПРФ, Союза советских офицеров и Уссурийского казачьего войска, школьники.