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Anti-war rallies ripple across Asia

AFP, Jakarta
Demanding an immediate end to the US-led war on Iraq, demonstrators took to the streets of the Indonesian capital and other cities across Asia on Saturday as Europe braced for another day of protest.
Anti-war demonstrators vented their outrage over the heavy US bombing of Baghdad during largely peaceful protests in Australia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, New Zealand, Taiwan and Thailand.
Opponents of the war on Iraq were also returning to the streets of London by the thousands early Saturday and major anti-war demonstrations and rallies were planned across the United States for later in the day.
In Jakarta, the capital of
Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country, some 3,000 protestors picketed the US embassy, branding US President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Australian Prime Minister John Howard "terrorists" and "war criminals."
"We condemn the evil aggression against Iraq. Bush, Blair and Howard should be brought to the international court of justice as war criminals," the Muslim group, which organised the protest, Hizb ut Tahrir, said in a statement.
An anti-war protest was staged by some 1,500 people in Yogyakarta in central Java on Saturday, witnesses said. "America is not a global cop," read a poster.
Predominantly-Muslim Bangladesh was gripped by a
nationwide strike to protest the war and hundreds of protestors took to the streets of Dhaka.
Several hundred Islamic activists, carrying sticks and shouting anti-US slogans, gathered outside Dhaka's main Baitul Mukarram mosque and blocked a major road briefly by lying down, witnesses said.
In South Korea, protestors held up red cards reading "Stop War" and urged the South Korean government to cancel plans to dispatch non-combat troops to what they called an "unjustified" war.
Buddhist monks struck giant drums on a podium to console the spirits of victims of the war as a poem was read and entertainers performed on a stage outside the City Hall in central Seoul.
"Bush is the war criminal," human rights activist Park WonSoon said over a loudspeaker to an estimated crowd of 2,000.
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Australia on Saturday, bringing traffic to a standstill in several cities.
In the Western Australian capital of Perth, an estimated 10,000 people marched to the Esplanade to hear speeches by peace activists and union officials.
Across the country in Brisbane, a group of about 200 people broke away from a 3,000-strong protest rally to stage a sit-down protest in one of the eastern city's main thoroughfares.