Students protest Iraq, Afghanistan wars

Members of Indiana Students Against War protested wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during a gathering today on campus.

About 20 students held anti-war signs as the group demonstrated at the red clock between Woodburn Hall and Ballantine Hall around 4 p.m.

The students marched across campus from the clock to the Sample Gates then to the old Monroe County Courthouse at the corner of College and Kirkwood avenues.

The protest coincides with the six-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Following a surge of U.S. troops in Iraq, violence has decreased in the country. But organizers dismissed the decrease in violence as a temporary solution during the protest.

"A lot of this peace was brought through brutality," Ed Vasquez, a group organizer, said. "It's going to blow up."

The protesters were met with some resistance during the march. On Kirkwood Avenue, two men who identified themselves as Iraqi War veterans yelled obscenities at the protesters.

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