The global community has been on edge for the past few days after US President Donald Trump tweeted that the US would launch an attack on Syria sometime soon. The message has prompted large-scale pacifist protests across the world – in the US itself, the UK and Greece, to name a few.
Multiple airstrikes on Syria, however, took place, right under the cover of night on Saturday.
Anti-war demonstrations swept across Athens on Friday evening with protesters burning down a US flag near the American Embassy, Greek media reported.
The main rallying cry in the several-thousand-strong demonstration was the following: “Greece must not be involved in a potential US operation in Syria,” the newspaper To Proto Thema reported.
Protesters came up to the US Embassy chanting, “The only enemy is imperialism.” Near the building they unfurled posters reading “US, NATO, hands off Syria,” “Yankees, go home” and “Down with NATO and its bases,” the Greek weekly noted.
Separate demonstrations in downtown Athens were staged by the Communist Party of Greece and extra-parliamentary left-wingers, as well as organizations that had complained about the communists staging their protest independently.
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“I regret to say that a pervasive imperialist war is more and more likely to be waged. The Greek government shoulders a huge responsibility to our people,”…
