Thousands of Moroccans march in support of Iraq
Morocco-Iraq, Politics, 1/14/2003

Thousands of Moroccans took to the streets in Rabat on Sunday to express their support with Iraq against the U.S. war threats and refusal of "daily crimes against the Palestinian people."

The demo was held by the Rabat chapter of the "Initiative of support to Iraq," a NGO set up by the youth branch of the "Istiqlal Party" and gathering 50 political organizations, trade unions and human rights, women and youth associations.

Before the march set out from Rabat central "Bab El Had" square, a member of the organizing association read out a communique that "denounces strongly the new criminal aggression being prepared by the US-British-Zionist terrorism against Iraq." The communique considers that the campaign is "seeking to occupy Iraq and subdue its people."

The communique praises the "massive, enthusiastic, and mature participation in the march that represents a new step in our struggle" and calls all the country's forces to express "by all legitimate means and ways total and categorical refusal of the genocide plans under preparation."

It further hails Moroccans' support to the Palestinian people, to the Intifadah, and to resistance" and calls all freedom advocates worldwide and all the world citizens to face the destruction and genocide policy adopted by the US and the British administrations and by the Zionist leaders.

Participants in the demo chanted slogans that oppose the US and Israeli policy in the Middle East region and brandished banners calling for a war-free world and brotherhood among peoples and opposing the occupation of Iraq and the looting of its wealth.

Before the march dispersed calmly, participants read out the Fatiha (first verse of the Kuran) for the rest of the soul of the Intifadah martyrs killed by the Israeli occupation forces and for the Iraqi people who are victim of US-British shelling and the unfair embargo enforced against their country.

Spokesman of the demo organizers, Khalid Soufiani, told MAP the "march is a new testimony of the Moroccan people's categorical refusal of daily crimes perpetrated against people in Palestine and of aggression preparations against Iraq."

"As a Moroccan people, we reject the principle of aggression and we will face it with all forms of action, including boycotting American and Zionist products and products made in countries that have relations with the American terrorism," he stressed.

For Abdellah Bekkali, general coordinator of the march, "the demo is a message from the Moroccan people to the world peoples calling them to mobilize to face the American aggression against the Iraqi and Palestinian peoples."

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