(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Thousands of people on Saturday took to the streets of over 70 German cities to protest NATO's war in Afghanistan and global nuclear weaponization as part of the traditional Easter peace marches.
In Berlin, hundreds of people rallied in front of the US embassy to voice opposition to the US policy in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
They also called for the release of political prisoners in the US, including America's most prominent political detainee Mumia Abu Jamal.
Several US military bases in Germany were also targeted in the Easter peace marches
which are to continue through Monday.
Meanwhile, demonstrators gathered at a German air base in the southwestern town of Buechel, to protest the ongoing deployment of around 20 US nuclear warheads.
The German peace movement has repeatedly called for the abolition of all nuclear weapons and has used the Eastern peace marches to put pressure on the center-right government of Chancellor Angela Merkel to step up its campaign for a nuke-free Germany.
The issue of American atomic weapons and militarism in Germany has been a thorny one for most of Germans who view themselves as pacifists.
In fact, the history of Easter peace marches dates back to over 50 years and reached its peak in the early 1980s when more than 500,000 people demonstrated against the controversial deployment of medium-range American Pershing missiles.
However, since the end of the Cold War, public interest in the Easter marches had dropped significantly.
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8 April 2012 - 08:31
News ID: 307251
Thousands of people on Saturday took to the streets of over 70 German cities to protest NATO's war in Afghanistan and global nuclear weaponization as part of the traditional Easter peace marches.
