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INDYMEDIA EXCLUSIVE:
ACTIVISTS FOLLOW SHARON VISIT FROM DC TO NY
by Aries de la Cruz
NEW YORK -- (IMC)
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharons visit to New York was
greeted by calls for his arrest earlier today as dozens of
demonstrators, organized by the Al-Awda Palestinian Right to
Return Coalition protested the controversial Prime Ministers
arrival at a Council of Presidents function outside the
Sheraton New York in inclement weather. It follows a series of
demonstrations earlier this week in Washington DC.
Al-Awda is calling for
an investigation of Ariel Sharons war crimes and crimes
against humanity. As Israeli Minister of Defense during the
1980s, Sharon was responsible for the deaths of at least 20,000
Lebanese and Palestinian civilians during a three-month attack on
an air-defenseless Lebanon, specifially Sabra and Shatila, which
earned him the nickname Butcher of Beirut.
As prime minister
for less than a month, according to Al-Awda, Sharon
has already ordered measures which further violate the Fourth
Geneva Convention including blockades which have reduced the
Palestinian civilian population in the occupied territories to
extreme poverty and in some areas near starvation, and resulted
in deaths due to deliberate deprivation of access to medical
care. "
"It is clear that
the main obstacle to peace today and I really hate to say
that is Chairman Arafat," Sharon told the Council of
Presidents of major Jewish organizers, as the protestors outside,
holding soaked signs that said "Ariel Sharon = War
Criminal," which was stapled on to the historic
"Bush=Racism" placards used in the January 20
Inauguration protests, chanted "One, two, three, four: we
wont take it anymore. Five, six, seven, eight, Israel is an
outlaw state."
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