'Filthy three' go to restroom

'Filthy three' go to restroom

A campaign against the United States, Australia and Canada on Friday was taken, literally, into the restrooms at the Bali International Convention Center, where the UN meeting was held over the past two weeks.

Posters carrying pictures of a monster with three heads depicting the U.S., Australia and Canada, which non-governmental organization activists called the "filthy three" were plastered inside and outside of the restrooms at the BICC.

"This is a creative dirty campaign," said one delegate interviewed in front of a restroom.

It was Greenpeace activists who started the campaign against the three countries, which are being accused of siding too much with their multinational corporations in the negotiations in Bali.

Greenpeace also made a local Balinese ogoh-ogoh monster effigy with three heads depicting United States, Australia and Canada, but could not use it was considered offensive to the Balinese villagers. -- JP