Blair forced to cancel book presentation again

UK: British Ex Prime Minister Tony Blair (1997-2007) cancelled a second event related to the promotion of his autobiography due to threats of boycotts and protests by peace groups.

Blair had intended to present his memoirs, entitled "A Journey", last Wednesday at the Tate Modern Art Gallery in London, but at the last minute Random House, the book publisher, announced the cancellation.

According to the organizer of the protests Kat Phillips, to host an event of war criminals is a blow to the reputation of the Tate Modern, a tourist attraction in this city.

The ex Prime Minister also cancelled the book signing at Waterstones bookstore in London Monday due to protests by the organization Stop The War Coalition and the British National Party.

In his autobiography Blair considers the war in Iraq is just, in which the United Kingdom participated as an aggressor with the United States in 2003.

According to The War Coalition, an organization opposed to the Anglo-American invasion, it is not any author who is promoting the book, but a criminal who should be behind bars awaiting trial.

Groups of activists against the war are engaged in removing copies of Blair's memoirs from the section allocated to them by the bookstore and moving them to the crime novel or science fiction section.

London, Prensa Latina