MALAYSIA: Anti-US protesters hold demonstration against the war in Iraq outside the American Embassy in Kuala Lumpur

Protestors hold peaceful demostration outside U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. About two hundred anti-war and anti- free trade protesters held a peaceful but noisy demonstration on Sunday (March 18) outside the American Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The joint protest was organised by the opposition parties together with unions and non-governmental organisations in concert with the worldwide protests against American's occupation of Iraq and the American-led Free Trade Agreement (FTA), which is viewed as another form of colonisation on small nations by oppostion groups. The secretary general of the Socialist party of Malaysia S. Aruchelvan told Reuters Television "Today we are opposing, both this, we are asking hands off Iraq, hands off Malaysia. No to FTA agreement in Malaysia and out of troops in Iraq and other parts of the world." The protesters waved anti-war and anti-free trade placards mainly aimed at U.S. President Bush. Several leaders accused the U.S. and United Kingdom of greed for Middle East oil. They also called for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

ITN Source | March 18, 2007

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