'War criminal Bush' blamed for worldwide crises

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'War criminal Bush' blamed for worldwide crises
November 22, 2008
Mikael @ 10:52 am
Agence France-Presse

PROTESTERS have demanded that US President George W
Bush get out of Peru where he is attending an
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit,
blaming him for the world economic crisis.

"Bush out," about 1000 demonstrators chanted in the
center of the capital Lima, watched by scores of
police in riot gear who made sure they did not move
towards the APEC summit venue several kilometers away.

"This crisis didn't come from the Peruvian people. We
shouldn't have to pay for it," a union leader told the
crowd, which demonstrated peacefully.

Mr Bush, one of 21 leaders of Asia-Pacific economies
converging on Lima for the weekend summit, arrived
shortly after the protest. He was escorted under tight
US Secret Service and Peruvian police security from
Lima airport to the army headquarters building housing
the APEC meetings.

Friday's anti-Bush protest, organized by Peru's
biggest labor union, charged that Mr Bush's decision
to wage a costly war in Iraq contributed to the
financial and economic crises.

"The International Criminal Court should try him for
crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes of
aggression," a big banner next to the main stage for
the rally proclaimed.

"Bush - genocide. The Peruvians repudiate your
crimes," said another.

"We believe that Bush is responsible for the fall of
the financial system," explained Aldo Gil Cristostomo,
a 54-year-old mechanic standing near other protesters
carrying portraits of Che Guevara.

"The war in Iraq is partly responsible for the fall,"
he said.

Mr Cristostomo added that, while he had more sympathy
for Mr Bush's successor, Barack Obama, he believed the
Democrat "is going to maintain the neo-liberal system"
championed by the current US president.

Lima was filled with 39,000 police officers ensuring
that none of the heads of state and government would
be able to see any demonstrations. At least five
people who were among 20 protesters holding a separate
against corruption close to the summit venue were
arrested late Thursday.

The participants had tried to release a number of live
rats in a gesture decrying graft in Peruvian public
life, the organizer, Fidel Supo, said in a video
published on the website of El Comercio newspaper.
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