Demonstrations for peace draw thousands in Swiss cities
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Peace demonstrators in Zurich on Saturday. © Keystone / Michael Buholzer
Huge numbers have marched for the second weekend in a row in Swiss cities to protest against the ongoing war in Ukraine.
This content was published on March 5, 2022 - 18:44 March 5, 2022 - 18:44 Keystone-SDA/dos
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Demonstração de Zurique atrai milhares para a paz
The biggest demonstration on Saturday was in the morning in Zurich, Switzerland's biggest city, where organisers estimated that some 40,000 showed up to march under the slogan of“peace now”.
Trade unions and left-wing parties had called for the demonstration, which made its way – for the most part silently – through the city centre before politicians and civil society representatives took to a stage to speak out against the conflict.
As well as calling for an end to the fighting, and arms control and disarmament, speakers demanded tighter controls within the Swiss commodity trading sector to ensure that the sanctions targeting the Russian economy have a real effect.
Green Party leader Balthasar Glättli said that dependence on Russian imports and energy supplies needed to be tempered:“as long as we continue to get raw materials from Russia, then we have not done everything possible to stop this war”, he said.
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