Syria- “demonstration of a million”
Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
8th January, 2009
Waving Syrian and Palestinian flags and brandishing photographs of Palestinian dead in Gaza, protesters unfurled banners demanding ” the end of aggression against our people in Gaza” and “the end of Israeli occupation,” an AFP journalist reported.
Official Syrian media spoke of a “demonstration of a million expressing their solidarity with the people of Gaza against Israeli massacres.”
Syrian state television, broadcasting live from central Damascus, showed several demonstrators denouncing “Arab traitors and Arab leaders.”
Banners praised Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for supporting the Palestinians, while other demonstrators waved photographs of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Syria’s official news agency SANA, meanwhile, said Damascus University had ” postponed examinations” due on Thursday because of the protest.
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