By IRNA
London : Peace campaigners are planning to assemble in London on Saturday to mark the 5th anniversary of biggest ever anti-war demonstration even seen in London on the eve of the anniversary of US-UK invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
“Five years after the invasion of Iraq the world has become much more dangerous and volatile. Latest estimates suggest as many as one million have died violent deaths as a result of the occupation of Iraq,” said national organizers, Stop the War Coalition (STWC).
“The country’s infrastructure and civil society are in shreds.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has promised British withdrawals but there are still 5,000 British soldiers in Iraq,” SWTC said.
It was estimated that up to two million demonstrators took part in London’s biggest peace rally in a coordinated day of protests across the world on February 15, 2003, under the slogan “No war on Iraq – freedom for Palestine.”
The fifth anniversary protest coincides again with ‘World Against War’ marches around the globe agreed at the International Peace Conference in London last December.
STWC said that campaigners keep marching and protesting because policies of mass murder and devastation are opposed by the vast majority of people in Britain, the US and worldwide.
“Despite talk of a change of attitude to the Bush’s wars, Brown is Bush’s key partner in NATO’s escalation in Afghanistan, and that hidden war is fast becoming a disaster mirroring that in Iraq,” it warned.
The demonstration, which is starting with a rally in Trafalgar Square before marching past government office to parliament, is calling for all foreign troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, and demanding there is no attack on Iran.