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Iraq

At least 13 killed, 865 wounded overnight in Karbala as Iraqi police open fire on protesters

2019-10-30

[DAWN] At least 14 people were killed and 865 maimed overnight after Iraqi security forces opened fire on protesters in the holy city of Kerbala, medical and security sources told Rooters on Tuesday.
Allan is pleased
Three protesters died in the southern city of Nassiriya from wounds sustained in earlier protests, medical sources said.

Iraqis erupted into the streets for a fourth day on Monday in a second wave of protests against Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi's government and a political elite they say are corrupt and out of touch. The total corpse count since the unrest started on October 1 is now at least 250 people.

The unrest, driven by discontent over economic hardship and deep-seated corruption, has broken nearly two years of relative stability in Iraq, which from 2003 to 2017 endured a foreign occupation, civil war and an insurgency by the turban Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group.

Security forces fired tear gas at school and university students on Monday who defied a warning from Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi and joined thousands in Baghdad protesting against his government.

Soldiers were seen beating high school students with batons in two Baghdad districts. A Defence Ministry statement condemned the incident and said the soldiers did not represent the Iraqi army as a whole. It did not say if they would be punished.

Posted by:Fred

#2 Iraqi security forces opened fire on protesters

Guessed this wasn't the IDF.

Posted by: Skidmark 2019-10-30 15:23

#1 Nation building

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-10-30 13:02

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