BERLIN: Thousands of protestors demonstrated in Germany at the weekend as part of traditional "Easter Marches" which this year focussed on the country's unpopular military intervention in Afghanistan.
The demonstrations came after three German soldiers were killed in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan late Friday, after which German troops mistakenly killed six Afghan soldiers, according to authorities.
About 2,200 people demonstrated on Sunday in Berlin on a former Soviet military landing strip, which for long was the focal point of the pacifists' campaign in Germany, organisers said. Demonstrators also gathered in the western city of Cologne on Sunday, while on Saturday 1,200 protestors marched in the southern city of Munich and 1,500 in Stuttgart in the southwest on the 50th anniversary of the "Easter Marches".
| Fooey. They get more people for traditional parades. Call me when they get half a million. |
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