ANTI-WAR PROTESTS HELD IN NEW YORK
New York, 4 Zul-qaadah 1434/8 September 2013 (MINA) – Americans against possible military intervention of US in Syria marched towards Union Square after the demonstration held at Times Square in New York, Saturday.
The demonstrators carried puppet of US President Barack Obama and unfurled banners saying “We don’t want war again, stay away from Syria”, “No to war” and “Don’t bomb Syria” during the protest held with the participation of Syrian Americans as well as Occupy Wall Street (OWS), a protest movement in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City’s Wall Street.
Protestors met with another group gathering at 7th Street after their demonstration at Times Square. Security officers accompanied the protestors’ march towards Broadway who shouted slogans along the street.
New York police did not intervene the protestors who continued their demonstration at Union Square, Anadolu Agency quoted by Mi’raj News Agency (MINA) as reporting.
On the other hand, another Syrian group arrived in Times Square, and protested Bashar al -Assad and shouted slogans againstAssad regime.
Syrian people in the US gathered in Times Square to rally against massacres staged by the Syrian regime.
A group of protesters including women and children chanted anti-regime slogans suggesting the regime forces used chemical weapons which killed scores of people.
Chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs on August 21 killed more than 1,400 people. The US and the EU blame the Syrian regime for the attack.
Since the uprising on March 2011, more than 100,000 people have been killed and the number of refugees who had to flee Syria hit 2 million, according to the latest UN figures.
More 10,000 children killed
More than 10,000 children have been killed in Syria since the start of violence in this country, according to Syrian Network for Human Rights.
A written statement by the group said 10,913 children, 2,305 of whom where younger than 10 were killed during the operations by Assad regime in Syria. 3,399 femalechildren lost their lives, the statement added.
Syrian Network for Human Rights also said that there were 9,000 children younger than 18 in prisons in Syria and 79 children lost their lives under torture.
It also said that 88 percent of those who were killed in Syria were civilians and this was the greatest massacre that targetted civilians since the World War II.
According to the network, most children were killed in cities of Aleppo, Homs and Idlib and in Damascus suburbs. (T/P09/E1).
Mi’raj News Agency (MINA).
