ROME (AP) -- A few thousand demonstrators are rallying in Rome's Piazza Navona to protest the NATO-led military intervention against Libya leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces.
The protesters, including many pacifists, were listening to speeches Saturday and waving rainbow-colored anti-war flags.
Organizers of the rally included Emergency, a non-governmental organization whose Italian founder, Dr. Gino Strada, runs clinics in war-ravaged countries including Afghanistan.
One banner read that "humanitarian wars do not exist." The U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing the intervention against Libya invokes humanitarian reasons for getting involved militarily.
Italy is letting the NATO-led forces use its air bases, a key logistical part of the avowed goal to safeguard civilians in Libya.
(Mainichi Japan) April 3, 2011
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