BERNARD SHAW, CNN ANCHOR: Long-festering issues dividing rich nations and poor erupted in the streets of Prague Tuesday at the start of the IMF World Bank meeting. CNN'S Walter Rodgers has our report.</s>WALTER RODGERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Prague protesters made good on their pledge to use violence to try to disrupt the meeting of the World Bunk and International Monetary Fund. Vowing to kill capitalism, they breached police lines. Some of the hard-core protesters tore cobblestones out of Prague streets, bombarding police with them. The Czech News Agency reported 20 police injured, some burned by molotov cocktails thrown by the neo-communists and anarchists. Protesters were bloodied too, sometimes receiving less-than-gentle treatment from police, who had to be restrained by their colleagues. More than once, the anti-capitalists protesters came within 50 meters of the Congress Hall, where finance ministers and bank officials were meeting. Demonstrators failed to get into the meeting hall. But for several hours, World Bank and IMF officials -- thousands of them -- were trapped inside. By some estimates, as many as 9,000 protesters demonstrated, nearly all opposing global capitalism and corporate business. Most of them went out of their way to avoid violent confrontations with police. But their efforts to call attention to the plight of the planet's poor and environmental causes were eclipsed by the violence of the hard-core anti-capitalists.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hello.</s>RODGERS: By nightfall, when the World Bank and IMF officials had returned to their hotels, the demonstrators then turned their wrath on the nearest symbols of global capitalism here, trashing McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken. They are vowing to continue the protest until the financiers and bankers go home. Walter Rodgers, CNN, Prague.
Protests Turn Violent at IMF/World Bank Meeting in Prague