War Protesters Keep Pressure On

Indonesians Hold Nation's Largest Demonstration Yet

(CBS)  Tens of thousands of protesters marched on the U.S. Embassy in the Indonesian capital on Sunday, chanting "America Imperialist, No. 1 terrorist!" in what appeared to be the nation's largest anti-war demonstration yet.

The protesters — many dressed in traditional Muslim attire and representing the country's largest Islamic groups — numbered around 100,000 people, according to witnesses.

People in South Korea, Pakistan, China and Cyprus also rallied against the U.S.-led war in Iraq, in some cases burning U.S. flags and chanting anti-American slogans.

The marches followed a day of protests around the world in which demonstrators spattered streets with paint, jeered outside U.S. embassies and, in Germany, formed a 31-mile human chain for peace.

In Indonesia — the world's most populous Muslim nation — protesters chanted "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great," and wore headbands saying, "Peace, no war." One banner read: "Bush, Iraq is not your killing field."

Speakers demanded the United States pull out of Iraq and called for President Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Australian Prime Minister John Howard to be tried as war criminals. Britain and Australia have troops in Iraq.

Indonesia has been a vocal opponent of the war, and protests have been widespread across the country since the war began. Radical Islamic groups have boycotted of American products, threatened foreigners and recruited Indonesians to fight in Iraq — so far with little success.

In the central Pakistani city of Multan, more than 1,000 people, mainly shop owners, burned an American flag and an effigy of President Bush. The demonstrators also offered Muslim funeral prayers for Iraqi victims.

About 70,000 marched in Peshawar in a protest organized by hardline Islamic leaders. The march was the fourth such protest in Pakistan organized by the Mutahida Majlis-e-Amal, or United Action Forum.

"We will destroy America. We will fight jihad against America. I will be the first to die," said Shabbir Ahmed Khan, a member of Pakistani parliament from the Jamaat-e-Islami party.

Protesters burned effigies of President Bush amid chants of "God is Great." A huge sign near the speakers' platform read "Death to America and Britain."

A militant Islamic leader demanded the provincial government train people for jihad, or holy war.

"Jihad is the basis of Islam. The MMA (United Action Forum) government should set up camps where people should be trained for jihad," said Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, the head of Jamaat al-Dawat Islamic group.

Between 30,000 and 50,000 workers in Seoul, South Korea, protested their government's plan to support the U.S.-led war effort by dispatching non-combat troops.

"No War! We oppose troop dispatch!" read yellow signs held by the demonstrators.

South Korea's National Assembly has twice delayed voting on the proposal amid rising anti-war sentiment.

In a rare instance of campus political activism permitted by Chinese authorities, about two dozen students at China's elite Peking University staged a quiet demonstration.

However, police dispersed anti-war protesters who sought to gather in other parts of Beijing, continuing a practice of forbidding most public demonstrations. At least 10 people, including two reporters, were detained; it wasn't clear if any were formally arrested.

At the British Akrotiri Air Base in Cyprus, about 5,000 Greek Cypriots held the largest demonstration on the island since the war started. Protesters held placards that read, "Bush murderer of children," "No blood for oil" and "Close the bases of death."

Akrotiri — the largest air base outside Britain — has been used extensively since the beginning of the war as a refueling and resupply base for U.S. and British aircraft and warships operating in the eastern Mediterranean.