Thousands of people across Germany took part in the Easter marches over the holidays. The focus of the rallies was the Ukraine war.
In Dortmund, the Easter March Rhine-Ruhr should come to an end on Monday. There have also been demos over the past few days in Krefeld, Hamm, Gütersloh, Bielefeld, Münster, Iserlohn, Düren, Cologne, Wuppertal and Neuss. For more than 60 years, Easter has been a demonstration against nuclear weapons and for peace.
Peace movement deeply divided
But the peace movement is obviously deeply divided, as the peace researcher Jochen Hippler told him WDR stressed. For some Easter marchers, the issue is not yes or no, but who is responsible for the war.
There must be peace in the Ukraine, and now, is one of the demands at the Easter marches in NRW. But in some places it is not the Russian aggressor who is identified as the culprit, but the federal government. Germany must do everything possible to achieve peace in the Ukraine through diplomacy, an Easter marcher tells dem WDR. Western arms deliveries to Ukraine should no longer be allowed.