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Protesten in Irak tegen Amerikaanse kolonisatie. by Guido Tuesday April 15, 2003 at 06:26 PM |
In Irak kwamen mensen op straat om te betogen tegen de nieuwe heersers die de VS hun willen aansmeren. GI-Joe schoot wat betogers dood. "We bring you freedom, don't ask for it." Het Pentagon ontkent de schietpartij.
Vandaag betoogden meer dan 20.000 mensen in Irak tegen de Amerikaanse kolonisatie. "Weg met Saddam, weg met Amerika". Om onbekende redenen schoot het Amerikaans kolonisatie leger meer dan tien betogers neer en verwondde er 100 andere. Mensen werd belet om de lijken te verwijderen.
"But in nearby Nassiriya, thousands of Iraqis protested that they did not need American help now Saddam Hussein had gone.
"No to America, No to Saddam," chanted Iraqis from the Shia Muslim majority long oppressed by Saddam, who is from the rival Sunni sect. Arabic television networks said up to 20,000 people marched."
"United States troops have opened fire on a crowd opposed to the US-installed governor in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, killing at least 10 people and injuring as many as 100, witnesses and doctors said."
"One witness, Marwan Mohammed, 50, told AFP: "The people moved toward the government building, the children threw stones, the Americans started firing. Then they prevented the people from recovering the bodies."
Another, Ayad Hassun, 37, said: "They (the soldiers) climbed on top of the building and first fired at a building near the crowd, with the glass falling on the civilians. People started to throw stones, then the Americans fired at them," Hassun said.
"Dozens of people fell," he said, his own shirt blood-stained."
De commentaar van het leger:
"US forces in Mosul refused to comment to AFP, and at US Central Command in Qatar, Brigadier General Vincent Brooks told a press briefing he had seen no military reports of the incident and could not confirm it."