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Colombo protest against occupation of Iraq
The Sri Lankan Alliance for the Protection of National Resources and Human Rights - which is linked to the global confrontation against the war menace on Iraq - held a protest outside the Fort Railway Station yesterday to coincide with the first anniversary of the US attack on Iraq.

This people's protest was part of a global mobilisation against the US war and occupation of Iraq. The World Social Forum, at the recent meeting held in Mumbai, had decided to conduct this global mobilisation against the Iraq war.

"We in Sri Lanka should make this an occasion not only to join the rest of the civilised world in opposition to the war in Iraq, but also to reflect on the nature and background of this and a host of other wars being conducted around the world, including our own war here in Sri Lanka," Alliance spokesman Sarath Fernando said.

"At a superficial level, there may appear to be no connection among these different wars, conducted by diverse and disparate entities. However, a closer look at their origins would reveal that there is at least one common thread running through all of them - the many different avatars of capitalist globalisation, of course with their natural internal contradictions. The governing elite of the US and Britain carried out their plans for the invasion and occupation of Iraq against the very well demonstrated wishes of the world community," he said.

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