Fwd (GLW): INDIA/PAKISTAN: Left stages coordinated protests against war drive

["Alan Bradley" <abradley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From Green Left Weekly, June 19, 2002.

INDIA/PAKISTAN: Left stages coordinated protests against war drive
BY EVA CHENG

Thousands rallied on June 13 in at least nine cities across India and
Pakistan to protest against the war drive and the threat of nuclear
devastation on the subcontinent.

"How can arms traders be peace-brokers?" was a question raised by Communist
Party of India-Marxist Leninist (Liberation) general secretary Dipankar
Bhattacharya at a rally in Delhi in which hundreds of people participated.
"It is ironic that the Bush and Blair administrations, two of the biggest
suppliers of weapons to the region, are being lauded as brokers of peace",
he pointed out.

Similar protests were also held in Lucknow, Patna, Ranchi, Kolkata,
Vijaywada, Chennai and several other Indian centres.

In Pakistan, more than 1000 people took part in the Lahore protest which was
a very spirited event observed by a big number of police.

<The remainder of the article can be found at
http://www.greenleft.org.au/current/496p13.htm >


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