Fresh protests held over anti-Islam video
Angry demonstrators clash with police in Afghanistan, Indonesia and Pakistan,
as peaceful protests are held elsewhere.
Last Modified: 17 Sep 2012 11:43
Protesters in Kabul have set several vehicles on fire and injured at least 40
policemen in clashes [Reuters]
A fresh round of protests against an anti-Islam video, some of them violent,
have broken out in several countries in the Muslim world.
Protests were held on Monday in Indonesia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the
Phillipines, Yemen and elsewhere.
In Kabul and Jakarta, protests turned violent for the first time since the
furore over the film mocking Islam first broke out last week. Hundreds of angry
men clashed with police, hurled stones and shouted "Death to America".
In Kabul on Monday, more than 1,000 Afghans protested, setting police cars and
commercial storage containers ablaze on Jalalabad Road, Mohammad Ayoub Salangi,
Kabul police chief, told the AFP news agency.
Between 40 and 50 policemen were "very slightly wounded" by stone throwers and
members of the crowd waving sticks, said Salangi.
Burning tyres sent thick black smoke streaming into the sky and rocks littered
the road as shopkeepers hurriedly locked up and ran away.
A police official, who gave his name only as Hafiz, said protesters also threw
stones at Camp Phoenix, a US-run military base in the capital, but were later
driven back.
In Jakarta, protesters hurled petrol bombs and clashed with Indonesian police
outside the US embassy, shouting "America, America, go to hell" in the first
violent film protests in the world's most populous Muslim nation.
Police were seen kicking or dragging away some of the protesters, while one
policeman was taken away in an ambulance with his face bleeding.
Rikwanto, a police spokesperson, said that officers used tear gas, water cannon
and warning shots, but did not say whether they had fired live ammunition or
blanks.
Clashes in northwest Pakistan
In Pakistan, thousands of students burned US flags and chanted anti-US slogans
in the main northwestern city of Peshawar.
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In the nearby district of Upper Dir, adjacent to a former Taliban stronghold
crushed in 2009, a protester was killed and two other people wounded in an
exchange of fire with police after a similar demonstration.
The outbreaks of violence were the latest eruptions of anger over the
low-budget trailer made in the US and aired on YouTube that has fanned unrest
around the world, leaving at least 18 people dead.
The film, entitled Innocence of Muslims, believed to have been produced by a
small group of extremist Christians, has led to a week of furious protests
outside US embassies and other American symbols in at least 20 countries.
Following complaints, Google is now barring access to the video in Egypt,
India, Indonesia, Libya and now Malaysia, while the government has restricted
access to YouTube, which is owned by Google, in Afghanistan.
Monday's violence came one day after the head of the Shia Muslim movement
Hezbollah, blacklisted in the United States as a terrorist group, called from
Lebanon for a week of protests.
Protests were also held on Monday in Yemen, where hundreds of students called
for the expulsion of the US ambassador, and in the Phillipines.
Source:
Agencies
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