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    Protests raging in the south and intensifying in the squares of Baghdad

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    Protests raging in the south and intensifying in the squares of Baghdad Empty Protests raging in the south and intensifying in the squares of Baghdad

    Post by Rocky Mon 20 Jan 2020, 2:59 am

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    Thousands gathered on the highways in Diwaniyah, Dhi Qar, Basra, and Kut, burning tires and blocking roads leading to the capital - Image: Reuters[/rtl]

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    ARBIL (Kurdistan 24) - Protests raged in a number of southern cities by cutting off several main roads in an expression of anger after the political elite failed to nominate an interim prime minister working on early legislative elections to end weeks of the crisis in Iraq.
    Thousands gathered on the highways in Diwaniyah, Dhi Qar, Basra, and Kut, burning tires and blocking the roads leading to the capital.
    Arrests campaign
    The Iraqi authorities have ordered the arrest of everyone who cuts roads and closes official departments, many of which are disrupted in Baghdad and southern cities.
    The Baghdad Operations Command said in a statement that the security forces had arrested a "group outside the law" that tried to cut the Mohammed Qasim Highway.
    The statement added that the security forces reopened the road.
    The protests flare up
    Despite this, the protesters tried to block Muhammed Al-Qasim Road, in an escalating step aimed at disrupting traffic, in protest against the failure to meet their demands.
    A Kurdistan correspondent 24 in Baghdad said that dozens of protesters have regained the momentum of their anti-government demonstrations in Baghdad's Aviation Square.
    The nearby Tahrir Square is witnessing other demonstrations that have been going on for nearly a hundred days.
    There were reports of two protesters killed and several wounded after security forces fired tear gas canisters at crowds in Baghdad, according to local media.
    Calls for restraint
    The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Iraq, Jenin Henness Blackshart, urged the security forces to exercise restraint and not to resort to the suppression of protests.
    The deadline set by the demonstrators for the political elite to nominate a temporary prime minister or resort to blocking the roads that link the provinces together has ended.
    Video footage circulated by activists on the Internet showed protesters, as they demanded that all Iraqis escalate until the demands were met.
    Timeout
    Iraq has been experiencing political rigidity and paralysis in public life, especially in the south, since Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi announced the resignation in response to the Marjaiya request.
    And political forces are still unable to find an alternative figure despite the deadlines set by the constitution, which made the crisis enter a dark tunnel.
    The 30-day deadline granted by the constitution to the President of the Republic to commission an alternative coincided with the end of the deadline set by the demonstrators to implement the demands.
    On the 24th of this month, the deadline set by the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, expires to choose five candidates so that parliament can elect one of them.
    The protests in Iraq, which have entered its fourth month, are the largest since the fall of the former regime by US forces in 2003.


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