Moroccans say no to war in Iraq, papers
Morocco-Iraq, Politics, 4/1/2003

The large demonstration staged in Rabat on Sunday in solidarity with Iraq was Moroccans' way to say "No" to "a new war of occupation," condemning "the aggression" targeting the Iraqi people, write on Monday Moroccan papers.

The march caught such headlines as "A Human Tide against War," "The March of the Moroccan People against War," "Halt to the War of Occupation," "The Civil Society Mobilized for Iraqis," "The War of All Kinds of Extremism..."

While hailing King Mohammed VI's decision to send an urgent humanitarian aid to Iraq, these papers noted that the solidarity march coincided with the opening by the sovereign of a special bank account for donations to brotherly Iraqi people.

For pro-government "Assahra Al Maghribia," "Moroccans' solidarity with their Iraqi and Palestinian brothers is thus multifaceted."

"If some speciously argue that the Iraqi people has enough resources not to be dependant on external aid, the reality is otherwise, given that Iraq has been embargoed and can't dispose of its own resources," the paper adds.

The daily paper in French, L'Opinion of the Istiqlal Party (in government), wrote that "Moroccans have chosen to celebrate "Earth's Day" to march in solidarity with Iraq and Palestine as to remind, if need be, that both causes are in fact one."

While calling for the consecration of the expression "Arab Street," coined by political analysts during the second Gulf War, L'Economiste, independent, says "this time the Arab street supports a resistance movement (É) of a people that may lead to street combats."

"The Moroccan people, in all its components, massively took to the street to voice its categorical opposition to the US-British war against Iraq, and asks for the immediate halt of this aggression," writes Al Monaataf, opposition.

The "massacred and sacrificed" Iraqi populations have the right to "an unswerving support" in a world where human values are viewed through the narrow prism of greed, notes Maroc Ouest, independent.

The paper goes on to say the marches, staged throughout the world, bear witness to the fact that "humanity has not forgotten the atrocities it has already gone through." They are also "a human outcry to rid the world of other criminals disguised in the cloak of justice makers."

Beside the Rabat march, other demonstrations were staged on Sunday in several Moroccan cities protesting the US-British war against Iraq and its people.

In Agadir, about 30,000 demonstrators marched through the city's main streets decrying "the aggression against the Iraqi people" and calling for the immediate cessation of this war."

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