A South Korean little boy holds one of anti-war placards during a rally near U.S. Embassy in Seoul Monday, March 24, 2003, protesting against the U.S.-led war and a government plan to dispatch about 600 South Korean military engineers and 100 medics to Iraq.
Riot policemen block protesters who are trying to march toward the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea Monday, March 24, 2003.
In cities around the world, including many in the U.S., thousands marched in protest of the war. Some of the protests even turned violent and ended in arrests. Here, a young man in a decorated helmet takes part in demonstration of around 30,000 people in Bern, Switzerland, March 22.
Police detain a student during an operation to break up an anti-war protest in Manama, Bahrain, on March 22. A group of protesters demonstrating against the U.S.-led war on Iraq tried to reach the U.S. Embassy, but were stopped by police. Riot police used tear gas against some 200 high school students who threw stones near the U.S. Embassy in Bahrain.
Tens of thousands of anti-war demonstrators, spanning 30 blocks, marched down Broadway on Saturday. Some celebrities joined in, including actors Roy Scheider, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee and singer Patti Smith. About 2,000 police were assigned to the rally, including undercover officers with beeper-sized radiation detectors and other counter-terrorism measures.
Two anti-war activists, wearing helmets and white boiler suits, are arrested by helmeted British riot police during a demonstration outside RAF Fairford airbase, western England, March 22, 2003. The demonstration drew 5,000 people and was was in protest against USAF B-52 bombers operating out of the base in the war against Iraq. They laid flowers at the main gate for "the death of democracy."
Anti-war protesters walk west on Wacker Drive in Chicago, March 21. Thousands of people gathered and marched through the city in opposition to the war in Iraq. Since the outbreak of war, peace demonstrations have spread to dozens of American cities in one of the widest outpourings of anti-government protesting in many years.
Thousands of Egyptian demonstrators shout anti-U.S. and British slogans during a protest March 21 following Friday prayers outside Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, the highest Islamic Sunni institution. Hundreds of riot police watched as about 5,000 students gathered at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, chanting "Oh Arab army! Where are you?"
Demonstrators march through Marseille, southern France, Saturday. Tens of thousands of people peacefully protested on Saturday in major French cities, including 90,000 people who marched in Paris. French protesters singled out the McDonald's fast food chain as a symbol of American influence. Protesters pelted rocks at a restaurant in Strasbourg and others burst into a McDonald's in Lyon.
Demonstrators surround a model of the Statue of Liberty, carrying a cruise-missile rocket and an oil barrel, to protest against the U.S.-led war against Iraq in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on March 22. Peace rallies were held across Germany on Saturday with tens of thousands of people gathering to protest.
Riot police, who have been splashed with red paint by protesters, stand guard during an anti-war demonstration outside the U.S. Embassy in Athens on Saturday. Thousands of demonstrators rallied outside the heavily guarded embassy. Saturday's biggest protests were in Europe.
An elderly Indian Muslim shouts anti-U.S. slogans during a demonstration near the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India, March 22. Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee called a meeting of opposition parties Saturday to discuss the war, amid growing criticism of the conflict.
Two war protesters react after being hit with pepper spray by police during a demonstration in Portland, Ore. Thousands of protesters marched through downtown Portland blocking traffic; at least 35 people were arrested. Across the country, Anti-war activists have blocked traffic, sat in at federal buildings, prayed at somber candlelight vigils, and laid down on sidewalks to symbolize the war dead.
A South Korean student gets caught in the middle between riot policemen and fellow students during a protest against the U.S.-led war on Iraq in Seoul, South Korea, March 22.
Syrian university students march through Damascus' main streets to protest the U.S.-led war on Iraq for the second day, March 22. The placard reads, "No for war on Iraq's people."
Sydney Opera House personnel inspect the slogan "No War" painted on the Sydney icon Tuesday, March 18, 2003. Protesters daubed the slogan on the building shortly before Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced Australian troops would join any U.S.-led military strike.