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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] The Guardian: This is how kidnapped activists in Iraq and intelligence penetrated the protest grounds[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]When the sun began to set, it appeared that the evening of December 14 was no different from Haider, a former military doctor in Baghdad. After leaving the protest camp in Tahrir Square, where he was treating the wounds of injured anti-government protesters, he went out to dinner with his friends in the neighboring Karrada neighborhood.
The next day, he packed his military bag with bandages and medicine and returned to the streets. By the end of October, when protesters were regularly occupying Tahrir Square, Haydar was leading a team of nurses and a doctor, treating victims of tear gas and plastic bullets as well as live ammunition. When one of these bombs smashed through his right arm, he was taken to a nearby hospital but returned three days later with iron bars sticking out of his tacit arm. The blue tent he shared with his friends, with piles of blankets covered in mold, became his home.
After dinner that night in December, instead of returning to the square as he usually did, Haider decided to go to his home in a working-class neighborhood in eastern Baghdad to verify his pregnant wife and mother. Shortly after midnight, he was sitting on the sidewalk outside his home - where the internet reception was better - as he was checking out his Twitter feed to get the latest news from the field when a minivan stopped in front of him. Three men in black military uniform and white coaches came out and came close to it. "Are you a haider?" One of them asked, he remembers.
“No, I am his brother Muhammad,” he answered quickly, telling the men that he would go inside to bring the person they were looking for.
The trick didn't work, one of the men grabbed him from the neck and dragged him into the truck. He chose his last phone and wallet. The men were blindfolded, handcuffed and pushed to the truck’s floor under their feet. Someone put a pistol on his head and told Haider he would shoot if he opened his mouth.
When the car stopped, an hour or so later, the men silently walked into a large nude room and locked the door. Early the next day, two masked men in black uniforms, carrying sticks and thick cables, entered the room. They blindfolded him again, and without asking any questions, they started beating him until he lost consciousness.
The Iraqi government's response to the popular protest movement was violent and brutal. Within four months, security forces had killed 669 civilians and wounded more than 25,000, according to the Iraqi Human Rights Commission, local NGOs and activists. About 2,800 people were reportedly detained.
The Guardian was told that some of these security forces are following a parallel campaign to end protests and silence activists and journalists through kidnappings, intimidation and assassinations. Last month, a TV reporter and cameraman were killed in their cars hours after he denounced the correspondence in a Facebook video campaign. It seems that the kidnapping of Haidar was part of the same effort.
"From the first day, the government chose to pursue violent options in dealing with the demonstrators," a senior official of the Iraqi Human Rights Commission told the Guardian newspaper, speaking on condition of anonymity.
He said: "Violence came in waves." "First, there were mass killings; 157 were killed in the first three days alone. By early November we began to receive reports of kidnappings, not only in Baghdad but also in Amara and Nasiriyah. Activists, journalists, academics, and anyone suspected of supporting the protest movement began in terms of Logistical or moral to receive death threats before being kidnapped. The Commissioner said that two activists in Karbala were assassinated a few days after he met with his colleagues.
In Tahrir Square, pictures of the disappeared are posted on walls, electricity poles, or the gates of tents flowing. Some are old, yellow and amazing, others are new and new.
"These kidnappings are not random," said the senior human rights official. "They are calculated, planned and designed to intimidate the demonstrations."
"They came in stages. First, they began with prominent activists, especially those appearing in the middle
In his statements and television headlines, former Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi claimed that a "third party", aiming to stir up discord between the Iraqi people, was committing kidnappings and assassinations, the same "third party" that deployed snipers in the early days of the protest. These allegations are ridiculed by human rights groups and demonstrators, and they conflict with some government security officials.
"In the last week of September, we began receiving intelligence reports that massive demonstrations would take place, followed by a military coup," a senior official in the Popular Mobilization Units Directorate told the Guardian.
"An operations room has been set up," the official said. Abdel-Mahdi was the commander in chief of all the armed forces. Around him the army and the federal police and the crowd leaders sat as well as the Iranians. They all saw the demonstrations as part of a larger conspiracy, and made a decision to violently suppress them, which drove all units to fire.
"Then some, but not all, of the crowd factions decided to target the activists associated with foreign embassies and media organizations sponsoring the riots," the official added.
Human rights groups support the claim of government involvement in the abductions. "The security forces are near the square, and they monitor anyone entering and leaving, and there is a network of high-resolution cameras connecting Baghdad, so it is inconceivable that the government cannot determine the people who are and the official from the Iraqi Human Rights Commission said:
The Guardian also spoke to an Interior Ministry intelligence officer who allegedly ordered to participate in demonstrations in order to spy on the movements of real protesters.
The intelligence officer said: "The secret surveillance department of the whole ministry is in the field, and they have their tents, and they monitor who goes in and out."
We have cameras and we can monitor the squares and all the entrances, and we know who enters and leaves the yard. We take advantage of the young protesters and their lack of experience, talk to them, get their names and follow them to try to reach their leaders. "
Hussam claimed that the particular aim of the observation is those who distribute food and provide protesters with tents and blankets. "The government wants us to report daily on who is financing these protests, but we cannot find these" financiers "because everyone sends money: elderly women, shopkeepers, and students. But the government is obsessed with the idea of the plot and that all the demonstrations are organized by foreign embassies.
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