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作者：Anonymous 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
500 arrested in D.C.
Washington, D.C., authorities have made at
least 500 arrests today as hundreds of
protesters targeting a meeting of the
International Monetary Fund and World Bank
clashed with police on the rainy streets of the
nation's capital. The protesters say unfair IMF
policies benefit wealthier nations at the
expense of developing ones, but the IMF says
its policies help the poor.
IMF protesters arrested in DC
'G-24' finance ministers are meeting
From Bob Franken, Shirley Hung and Mike Ahlers (CNN)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Hundreds
of protesters targeting a meeting of
the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) and World Bank clashed with
police on the rainy streets of
Washington on Friday, with at least
500 arrests as of noon EDT,
according to District of Columbia
Police Chief Charles Ramsey.
Ramsey said additional people were
taken into custody without formal arrest,
including 40 picked up for blocking a
sidewalk on Connecticut Avenue.
The protesters object to what they see
as unfair IMF policies that benefit
wealthier nations at the expense of
developing nations. The IMF disagrees,
saying it is the poor of the world who are
benefited by its policies.
District of Columbia police arrested 21
people when they tried to block the
intersection of 14th Street at
Independence near the IMF meeting
site. Another 40 people were arrested
nearby in a skirmish with police that
included rock throwing and smoke
bombs.
In the first incident, 25 people sat down
in the middle of the intersection, four of them chained together. Police gave the
protesters two minutes to move, and only four complied.
Police sawed the chains of the four who were chained together. All 21 will be
charged with failing to obey police order, said D.C. Metropolitan Police Capt.
Ralph McLein.
In the second incident, police clashed with about 150 protesters at a Citibank
branch at the intersection of Vermont and K Streets.
The executive director of the
environmental group Greenpeace USA,
John Passacantando, was among those
arrested during the day, according to
Greenpeace officials, who said
Passacantando was not participating in the
protests but had been swept up in the
arrests while riding his bicycle to work.
Between 200 and 300 protesters gathered
in a park near the site of the IMF meeting,
but police said there had been no
problems there.
About 1,500 D.C. police officers were being assisted by 1,700 officers from
other jurisdictions around the country, D.C. police said.
Finance ministers of the Group of 24, or "G-24" -- 24 countries the collective
task of which is to coordinate the positions of developing nations on monetary
and finance issues and to ensure that those positions are adequately
represented to the IMF and World Bank -- were meeting at IMF headquarters
on Friday, ahead of the IMF-World Bank annual meetings, which begin
Sunday.
The G-24 consists of eight member-states each from Africa, Asia and the
developing nations of Europe, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
Finance ministers of the Group of 7, or "G-7," were also to meet on Friday to
discuss economic and financial issues among the major industrial countries --
Canada, Japan, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States and
Italy.
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