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Iraq’s protesters struggle to keep waning movement going
If no compromise is accepted, there will be nothing. Politics is the art of the possible, not the perfect. [Rudaw] At the once bustling hub of the largest anti-government protest movement in Iraq’s modern history, crowds have dwindled, and donation boxes have sprouted up. Loudspeakers resound with calls by activists for funds to keep their hard-fought revolution alive.The six-month-old movement has faced one setback after another, from the shifting positions of a mercurial Shiite holy man to an apathetic political class and, now, fears over an outbreak of the coronavirus ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... that Iraq’s decrepit health system has struggled to contain, with nearly 93 confirmed cases and nine deaths. Posted by: trailing wife 2020-03-15 |
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