JAPAN: PROTESTORS OUTSIDE U.S EMBASSY DEMONSTRATE OVER U.S ATTACK ON FALLUJA

Record ID: 355607

  • Title: JAPAN: PROTESTORS OUTSIDE U.S EMBASSY DEMONSTRATE OVER U.S ATTACK ON FALLUJA
  • Date: 9th November 2004
  • Summary: (U3) TOKYO, JAPAN (NOVEMBER 9, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS IN THE STREETS IN FRONT OF THE U.S. EMBASSY 0.11 2. SLV MASKED PROTESTORS SHOUTING SLOGANS AT THE U.S. EMBASSY 0.19 3. SLV POSTERS READING 'WE PROTEST GENOCIDE IN FALLUJA' 0.24 4. SLV PROTESTOR WITH POSTERS "IMPEACH FALLUJA GENOCIDE" 0.33 5. VARIOUS O
  • Embargoed: 24th November 2004 12:00
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  • Location: TOKYO, JAPAN
  • Country: Japan
  • Reuters ID: LVA18CF07G789Q1TXJEAHZAEWXR2
  • Story Text: Students gathered in front of the U.S. embassy in
    Tokyo to protest the U.S. attack on Falluja.



    Student activists took to the streets in front of the
    U.S. embassy in Tokyo on Tuesday (November 9) to protest at
    the U.S. full out attack on the rebel-held Iraqi city of
    Falluja.

    Shouting anti-U.S. slogans, at least two dozen helmeted and
    masked activists confronted Japanese police that had cordoned
    off the streets in front of the U.S. embassy.

    U.S. forces were preparing to fight their way further into
    Falluja as part of an offensive to crush rebels and any
    foreign fighters in the Sunni Muslim city.

    But Japanese activists say that that is a U.S. interpretation.

    "The U.S. says they have gone in there to root out the
    terrorists, but its the U.S. that have invaded Iraq and so
    that's only their interpretation," said one student who
    preferred to have her name withheld.



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