Early reports from Anti-war Demos 18th March - London

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In Belgrade 100,000 people turn up at Milosevic's memorial, and thousands at his burial, lining the streets.
In London 12,000 campaigners protest Iraq, complete with their witty masks of Bush and Blair.
Look at the BBC reports. They play down the importance of the Belgrade numbers, continually insisting that most Serbs don't care about Milosevic or are against him, even though a pitiful 2,000 turned up at the counter-rally, despite the BBC and others continually mentioning it and text messages being sent around to get people to go there.
The BBC report on this demo on the other hand says something along the lines of "many Brits could be forgiven for staying in today with a nice warm cup of tea and the paper, but these ppl did not, but took to the streets", implying that most ppl just prefer the snugness and would otherwise have gone. It is a hell of a lot colder in Belgrade, but no-one mentioned that. And people didn't turn up on your pathetic rally because withdrawing troops makes no sense, given that most Iraqis want us there until their government can deal with the terrorists by itself.