"Chest document." To reform or to silence the movement in Iraq?

"Chest document." To reform or to silence the movement in Iraq?


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Iraqi activists attacked the "Sadr Document", an 18-point document published by Sadr's leader Muqtada al-Sadr, with the aim of "reforming", calling on protesters not to interfere in "political matters."

Sadr published a document he called the "Charter of the Revolution of Reform", directing demonstrators in the Iraqi movement to follow it, with the aim of reforming the situation in Iraq.

The document included 18 points, most notably the continued peaceful ness of demonstrations and the non-politicization of demonstrations by internal or external actors, which activists considered "hypocrisy" because the document itself was seen as politicizing the demonstrations.

In the document, Sadr demanded that protesters not interfere in political matters, reject certain policies, and not interfere in the formation of the interim government, which deprives demonstrators of their main demands in recent months.

The document became the first source of criticism from protesters on Saturday and Sunday, and pictures of protesters disguised as women and protesters with sticky moustaches were published to express their mockery of the "non-mixing" clause.

Activist Mohammed Majid al-Ahwazi wrote on his Twitter account: "Moqtada Al-Sadr's statement is a farce, take this point, saying: Demonstrations should not be politicized and no party party controls the demonstrations, ok and they see the role of your group when they occupied the squares and the Turkish restaurant and killed the demonstrators in Najaf?".

The hashtag "Sadr's document is rejected" was posted on Twitter, which was used by Iraqis to protest the moqtada al-Sadr's document.

One activist wrote: "The terms of the document do not apply to free revolutionaries but to his murderous and law-averse followers."

Mass student demonstrations took place in a number of iraqi provinces in response to the provisions of the Charter, most notably in The Babil and Dhi Qar provinces.

Muqtada al-Sadr's document comes after weeks of escalation, as Sadrist supporters, wearing blue berets, stormed the sit-in squares in Najaf and Karbala and fired heavily at protesters.

Nearly 10 protesters were killed in the attack in Najaf, while more than 100 were injured on a bloody night in the southern provinces.

Sadrist leader Moqtada al-Sadr has previously called on his supporters to help security forces open roads that have been closed for months of sit-ins and protests, and called for daily life to return to normal, after Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi was appointed prime minister.

Protests continued in Baghdad and a number of southern cities earlier this week, protesting Allawi's mandate to form a government, and sadrist supporters' attempt to clear the sit-in sit-in sit-in sit-in sit-in.

At least 543 people have been killed since anti-authority demonstrations began in Iraq on October 1st, the government's Human Rights Commission said in its latest report.

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