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Thursday, March 31. 2005
The argument is - if we accept the figure of 1.2 million people given for the Lebanese Independence demonstration held on March 14 - that the Lebanese protest of two weeks ago contained 35 percent of the population and that is the biggest ratio of people to population in history.
The comparisons included the largest demonstration in Ukraine's drive for democracy in 2004, which stood at 1.5 million or three percent of Ukraine's 50 million population; the largest Arab demonstration occurring at Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser's funeral in 1970 - six million or 13 percent of Egypt's then population of 45 million; the largest anti-war demonstration in the world in Italy in 2003, which stood at three million people or five percent of the country's 57 million population. -dailystar