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(回答先: Re: 全国で１３万人、反戦訴え イラク開戦１年(共同通信） 投稿者 竹中半兵衛 日時 2004 年 3 月 20 日 23:01:05)
Sunday 21 March 2004, 2:44 Makka Time, 23:44 GMT
Anti-war protests are sweeping across the world as millions demonstrate against the invasion of Iraq on its first anniversary.
From Sydney to Tokyo, London to New York and San Fransisco and across hundred other cities and towns, millions of protesters poured into the streets to condemn what they believed was an "unjust, illegitimate" war.
Journalists estimated that at least a million people streamed through Rome, in probably the biggest single protest during the day.
Climbing Big Ben
In London, two anti-war demonstrators climbed up the landmark Big Ben clock tower at the House of Parliament, unfurling a banner reading "Time for Truth."
The troubling truth one year on has been that the weapons of mass destruction -the pretext on which the US and UK led the invasion- are still no where to be found.
About 25,000 demonstrators gathered in central London, many carrying 'Wanted" posters bearing images of US President George Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
In New York, tens of thousands created a sea of signs in midtown Manhattan. Among the signs spotted in the crowd were, "Money for Jobs and Education and not for War and Occupation."
Texas protest
Anti-war activists gathered at a park in the small central Texas town of Crawford but out of sight of Bush's ranch there.
"I hate George Bush and everything he stands for and this war of vanity," said Don Marshburn, a Navy veteran.
"I am sick of bombs. It didnt do anything over there and it didnt do anything over here," he said.
New York's crowd was the largest in the United States, with organisers estimating up to 100,000 protesters.
"Hey Hey, Ho Ho, George Bush has got to go," marchers chanted.
Similar sentiments echoed through cities and towns of other continents.
In Tokyo, thousands of people marched through central Tokyo on Saturday to call for peace in Iraq.
Despite pouring rain, people gathered at Tokyo's Hibiya Park for an anti-war rally before the march, demanding the United States and Japan should immediately withdraw from Iraq.
Many carried banners and placards with slogans including "US, Get Out of Iraq Now!", "Stop the Occupation!" and "No to Japan's Dispatch of Ground Troops to Iraq."
Organisers claimed 30,000 people had turned out for the rally.
A middle-aged man held a large poster that showed US President George Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi under the headline: "The Worst Terrorists."
Another man in his early 20s carried a card that said: "Mr Bush, where are the weapons of mass destruction? You should get rid of your weapons of mass destruction in the US."
Sydney protests
In Sydney, Australia's biggest city, more than 3000 chanting "end the occupation, troops out" marched through the city centre, carrying a caged effigy of the head of Australian Prime Minister John Howard, a staunch supporter of the war.
Filmmaker and writer John Pilger and actress Judy Davis addressed the rally. In Melbourne the father of Australian David Hicks, being held as a "terror suspect" in a US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, called for justice for his son.
"David, if he has done anything wrong, should have been charged or released two years ago," Terry Hicks told about 3000 demonstrators.
Australia, a close ally of the United States, sent 2000 troops to Iraq and also despatched special forces troops to Afghanistan. About 850 of its troops remain in the Gulf.
Italians protest
Tens of thousands of people staged a mass protest in Rome on Saturday against the US-led occupation of Iraq on the first anniversary of the war, which had the support of the Italian government.
The protestors - numbering 300,000 according to organisers - filed through the city centre, marching under a rainbow-coloured flag and a giant banner reading "Together for peace".
The rally was called by the left-wing opposition, trade unions, non-governmental organisations and local government figures, in protest at the pro-US foreign policy of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right government.
"We are against war and against terrorism," cried demonstrators, in response to the charge by members of the Italian government that the rally played into the hands of Islamic extremists.
Philippines march
Members of the left-wing New Nationalist Alliance (Bayan),
waving signs saying "Stop the war," had earlier staged a protest a short distance from the embassy condemning the US government and Philippine President Gloria Arroyo for supporting the US-led attack and the coalition forces occupying Iraq.
However, they ignored police warnings they would not be allowed to get near the embassy and tried to march on the area, prompting police to use water cannons to break them up.
Other leftist and nationalist groups staged peaceful protests
against the Iraq invasion in other parts of Manila. Vice President Teofisto Guingona, who split with Arroyo over her close security ties with the United States, is due to take part in one of the rallies.
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