Antiwar rally in Sydney, 12 august 2006
This is a picture of a kid holding an Australian flag during an anti-war rally in Sydney last Saturday.
Australia's foreign policy has been well known to be supportive to the US government, which implies that Australia is supposedly to support Israel. But due to the large number of Lebanese born Australians, the government seem to be not so explicitly supporting the US. Unlike the US, the Australian government does not consider the political group of Hizbullah to be a terrorist organization. Only the external section of Hizbullah are considered terrorists by the Australian government. This political standing, though it may seem still not good enough for us Indonesians, it is still much better than the US as well as several other countries who considers the whole Hizbullah organization as terrorists.
It has been more than a month since Israel launched a full-scale military assault to Lebanon, causing almost one thousand civilian casualties in Lebanon, much more left homeless. The call for ceasefire had just taken place a few days ago, and i suppose it should have been brought into effect this morning local time.
Last weekend, around one thousand sydney siders gathered at Sydney Town Hall, rallying for an anti-war protest, urging Israel to stop its atrocities. Most of the crowd were of middle eastern appearence, many activists such as socialist groups, the greens party, and some unions also participated in this demo.
Here are some other pictures i managed to take during the rally (which i also participated in ;p).
A poster of a dead child. So tragic. (can you see World Tower at the background? that's the building i was talking about on my other post about Superman returns :p)
George street, front of Town Hall, are full of protestors.
Some kids enjoying themselves.
Police had increased the security in the CBD area during the rally.
Among numerous people who gave speech at the beginning and the end of the rally, one true blue Aussy women announced in front of the mass that she will go to Lebanon for jihad. Well, she didn't actually use the word "jihad", she told us that she wants to be sort of a human fence? Hmm.. i couldn't recall perfectly what she said... All i can remember was that she had went to the middle east for quite a while, and she plans to go there again, to go to Lebanon. Oh yes, and she is a muslim... i think. Well, she did say "Bismillahirrahmanirrahim... Assalamualaikum..."
Australia's foreign policy has been well known to be supportive to the US government, which implies that Australia is supposedly to support Israel. But due to the large number of Lebanese born Australians, the government seem to be not so explicitly supporting the US. Unlike the US, the Australian government does not consider the political group of Hizbullah to be a terrorist organization. Only the external section of Hizbullah are considered terrorists by the Australian government. This political standing, though it may seem still not good enough for us Indonesians, it is still much better than the US as well as several other countries who considers the whole Hizbullah organization as terrorists.
It has been more than a month since Israel launched a full-scale military assault to Lebanon, causing almost one thousand civilian casualties in Lebanon, much more left homeless. The call for ceasefire had just taken place a few days ago, and i suppose it should have been brought into effect this morning local time.
Last weekend, around one thousand sydney siders gathered at Sydney Town Hall, rallying for an anti-war protest, urging Israel to stop its atrocities. Most of the crowd were of middle eastern appearence, many activists such as socialist groups, the greens party, and some unions also participated in this demo.
Here are some other pictures i managed to take during the rally (which i also participated in ;p).
A poster of a dead child. So tragic. (can you see World Tower at the background? that's the building i was talking about on my other post about Superman returns :p)
George street, front of Town Hall, are full of protestors.
Some kids enjoying themselves.
Police had increased the security in the CBD area during the rally.
Among numerous people who gave speech at the beginning and the end of the rally, one true blue Aussy women announced in front of the mass that she will go to Lebanon for jihad. Well, she didn't actually use the word "jihad", she told us that she wants to be sort of a human fence? Hmm.. i couldn't recall perfectly what she said... All i can remember was that she had went to the middle east for quite a while, and she plans to go there again, to go to Lebanon. Oh yes, and she is a muslim... i think. Well, she did say "Bismillahirrahmanirrahim... Assalamualaikum..."
posted by Irfan at 10:06 pm
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