Several thousands joined an anti-war rally Sunday to mark the end of the three-day European Social Forum. The thousands who turned out were a fraction of the estimated million who came out to protest Feb. 15 last year against an imminent invasion of Iraq. But given strong public reactions against a redeployment of British troops to Falluja from the relatively safe Basra that was proposed earlier this week, the anti-war rally took on a new urgency. The anti-war rally was in effect an anti-occupation rally. And it went beyond calls to end occupation to resolutions to support the Iraqi resistance against occupation... "We will not allow the resistance to be trivialised as some sort of terrorist movement," Chris Nineham from the Stop the War Coalition told IPS. "It is a popular insurrection resisting occupation..."
| Do let's not trivialize "some sort of terrorist movement." |
| It appears to be a popular insurrection that gets its jollies blowing people up, to include little kiddies, and cutting people's heads off. |
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