LISBON, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 300 people staged a protest Saturday in the Portuguese capital city of Lisbon to mark the third anniversary of the U.S.-led war on Iraq.

    Sandra Fenfica, spokeswoman for an anti-war organization known as the peace and cooperation committee, told a downtown rally that the Iraqi people are still suffering after the war.

    "This is an unjust and criminal war, based on lies," she said, adding that the war has killed 132,000 Iraqis in the past three years and that napalm and other banned weapons are being put to use in the war-torn Arab nation.

    The participants demanded an immediate end to the war, chanting"yes to peace", "no to war" and "occupation forces out of Iraq".

    The protest came as part of the anti-war demonstrations across Europe. Enditem