Sunday, March 6, 2011

Iraq: Thousands protest against the government

They demonstrate against mismanagement and corruption in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, thousands gathered to protest. They complain that the people not from the oil wealth of the country will benefit - and curse the prime minister a "liar". Again have several thousand people demonstrated against the government.

Some 2,000 demonstrators gathered on Friday to protest in the capital Baghdad, to fight corruption, mismanagement and lack of electricity and water supply. A group in the Internet social network Facebook had called on citizens to go to a year after the election to the streets to express their discontent.


They called on the Tahrir Square in central Baghdad, demonstrators gathered "Oil for the people, not for the thieves." Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called her a liar. In several cities of the majority Shiite south, there were protests. In the port city of Basra, police used water cannons to disperse a quantity of about a thousand demonstrators. Even in the city of Nasiriya gathered thousands of people, hundreds more were in the cities of Najaf, Samawa, Fao and Hilla on the road.

Since the beginning of the protest movement came in early February in Iraq in clashes with police killed 22 demonstrators, 16 alone in a nationwide "day of anger" on Friday. Even in the city of Mosul, there were protests - there were the security forces to prevent a bloodbath. They came to a suicide bomber who was with three explosive belts on the way to a rally where he was about to blow.

The explosives were defused, the authorities informed of the northern Iraqi city.

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