As the nation awaited election results Wednesday morning, an anti-war group marched on Wall Street, New York, calling for an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

About 50 protesters from the "War Resisters League" walked fromthe World Trade Center site to the New York Stock Exchange. The group wanted American troops to return home immediately, saying the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan only create more terrorists.

"We can't fight terrorism with the terror of missiles, bombs and occupation," said Ruth Benn, coordinator from national War TaxResistance Coordinating Committee.

Some protesters carried cardboard coffins to represent those killed in war.

"War has been creating a lot of deaths," said protester Ed Hedemann. "Iraqi civilians, Iraqi soldiers, American soldiers, Afghani soldiers and civilians have been dying in huge numbers, and we want to see an end to it."

The War Resisters League is an 81-year-old secular pacifist organization whose members believe that war is a crime against humanity and advocate Gandhian nonviolence as the method for creating a democratic society free of war, racism, sexism, and human exploitation.

Source: Xinhua