Protesters paralyze Prague

  • 26/12/1999

About 8,000 activists railing against the inequities of economic globalization disrupted a meeting here today of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, clashing with police and paralyzing traffic in the Czech capital.In scenes reminiscent of protests outside a meeting of the two institutions in Washington in April, delegates from 182 countries found themselves trapped for six hours inside a downtown convention center as demonstrators blocked all exit routes.