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Edinburgh Rally against US middle east policy

ab | 17.04.2004 16:50 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | World

Some hundred people gathered today, Saturday the 17th of april, in Edinburghs parliament square following the invitation of the Edinburgh Stop the War Coalition to listen to speakers condemning the current US policy in the Middle East, and the mainstream British involvement and support for Bush's policy of massacring civilians in Falludja.
Another key point was Israels current policy of the seperation wall and the encouragement Bush and Blair expressed for Sharons discriminative policy towards the palestinians.

basically all of the participants at the rally at about 1pm
basically all of the participants at the rally at about 1pm

one of the speakers - MSP Colin Fox (SSP)
one of the speakers - MSP Colin Fox (SSP)

overview of rally
overview of rally

setup of rally
setup of rally

picture of the rally
picture of the rally


Unfortunately there was no march nor direct action nor direct involvement for the audience possible to express their discontent with the current events and to encourage them to start, initiate and maintain their own political projects and activities.
However, there is still political intrest and opposition to the Iraq war, as expressed today, even though the current disintrest in the peace movement might be associated with the misinformation and the absence of critical reports in the mainstream media towards the mass slaughtering of civialians and other human rights breaking events in Iraq and in the Midddle East, but also maybe with the disillusionment that the peacefull antiwar protests of hundreds,thousands and millions of protesters against the war in Iraq were so miserably ignored in this so called "representative democracy", making it impossible to retain responsibility for the actions which are carried through in the publics name.


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Well, the reason of why I am writing such opinionated stuff is that nothing really happenend apart from having one speaker after the other. In my opinion it was pretty boring and so did not stay long, but good that it happened anyway, and it was quite quickly organised. Also happy that one key point for the protest was the disgust about the current human rights breaches in Falludja and other towns in Iraq, where US snipers shoot civilians and ambulances, this is outlawed by the Geneva convention, see:  http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/0/6756482d86146898c125641e004aa3c5?OpenDocument , website of the International Red Cross:  http://www.icrc.org/

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