ZAGREB, Feb 14 (Hina) - Tomorrow's protest by peace activists against the war in Iraq, which will take place in downtown Zagreb, will be supervised by police and taped, Zagreb police said Friday.
ZAGREB, Feb 14 (Hina) - Tomorrow's protest by peace activists
against the war in Iraq, which will take place in downtown Zagreb,
will be supervised by police and taped, Zagreb police said Friday.
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The head of the Zagreb police commissioner's office, Krunoslav
Borovec, said "a sufficient number of intervention police
officers" will secure the announced protest rally to be held by some
thirty associations gathered into a civil initiative called
"Enough of Wars".
He added police would bolster the security measures around the U.S.
Embassy in Zagreb towards which the protesters should start walking
as of noon tomorrow.
Borovec said police would tape the protest, as it did with any other
peaceful protest rallies.
Peace activists are expected to begin gathering at 11 am. The rally
will last until 2 pm.
Anti-war protest rallies will also take place in Osijek, Split,
Pula, Zadar, Vukovar and Sibenik at the same time.
Croatian peace activists will thus join in global rallies against
the war in Iraq which will be held across the globe tomorrow.
The organisers of Zagreb's protest expect several thousand
citizens to turn up.
A petition will be signed during the rally, requesting that the
Croatian government annul its signature from a statement by the
Vilnius Group, and that Croatia remain neutral if a possible attack
on Iraq is launched.
The organisers stress their intention was not to propagate an anti-
American policy, but only protest against war and warn about the
"bad policy" of the U.S. government.
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