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    The "Post-Saddam Generation" in Iraq: fear, deprivation, and difficult dreams

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    Post by Rocky Fri 09 Apr 2021, 7:47 am

    [size=39]The "Post-Saddam Generation" in Iraq: fear, deprivation, and difficult dreams

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    April 09, 2021
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    Eighteen years have passed since the fall of Saddam Hussein, during which a new generation of Iraqis has grown up that does not remember the era of the previous regime, but who is living deprived of job opportunities and the basic necessities of life, as well as the right to express opinion freely and safely.
    Hussein, who came from Nasiriyah in southern Iraq, was only three years old when the previous regime fell on April 9, 2003.
    He has nothing in his memory of that past except what he heard about "Saddam's bloody regime," which "plunged Iraq into several wars that claimed many lives, and caused loss of lives and resources as a result of an economic blockade" imposed on the country since 1990 for many years.
    The young Iraqi recalls his dilapidated mud school in the village of South Nasiriyah, representing to him the great "infrastructure collapse" in Iraq. Like other sons of his generation, Hussein grew up in the midst of a series of wars, unrest, and deprivation of the basic necessities of life, "infrastructure, job opportunities, hospitals, and education."
    The infrastructure facilities have been damaged and collapsed without being repaired since the US army entered Iraq in 2003, while the country, the second largest oil producer in OPEC, suffers from frequent power outages and water shortages and is reported in Internet services.
    These harsh conditions forced Ibrahim, 21, to leave school since middle school, in order to work. He spends his day transporting goods on a motorbike to his small "stall" in the city center of Karbala for sale.
    "I was dreaming of attending the military college," he tells France Press, as he stands between the pink "cotton candy" he sells. But "the poor cannot live here."
    Hussein, on his part, is weighing work and studies to support his family of seven since he was thirteen years old, in a country where the poverty rate between children and adolescents reaches 2 out of every five children, according to UNICEF.
    In addition to pursuing his university studies at the Faculty of Political Science, he is still trying with his brother, who is two years younger than him, to find a daily wage job in a store, in order to provide an income for the family.
    Although Hussein will be the first member of his family to obtain a university degree, his hope for a job is negligible in light of the absence of investment in the private sector, in a country where every year 700,000 new young people enter the labor market.
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    Holders of higher degrees in Iraq .. Voices on the street seeking fairness
    The demands of holders of higher degrees in Iraq for their right to obtain jobs constitute a challenge to the government of Mustafa Al-Kazemi, as a large part of them participate in demonstrations to pressure officials.

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    Rampant corruption and clientelism stand in the way of the ambition to obtain a job in the government sector to which many university graduates are heading, in an idea inherited from the days of the former regime. Hussein says that these appointments "are only given to those belonging to parties in power or to the militias."
    The unemployment rate among those under the age of 25, who constitute 60% of the population of forty million, is 36%. This is one of the reasons for the unemployed youth joining armed factions that pay monthly salaries, while the state is unable to pay the salaries of its employees on time.
    As for the choice of traveling to study abroad, it is also difficult, because most international universities do not recognize Iraqi educational institutions ’certificates, while the University of Baghdad, for example, a century ago, was one of the most prestigious universities in the Middle East.
    All of these reasons prompted Hussein to participate in protest movements since he was sixteen years old, despite the fact that he grew up in a "tribal" environment and a "conservative" family.
    "In 2016, I was selling goods in Al-Haboubi Square, then protesters came and joined them. I was afraid at the time of my family's situation and I was forced to work to save the family," he tells France Press.
    With the renewed protests in 2018, "I started participating with or without my family's knowledge." He later joined the unprecedented demonstrations of October 2019. However, all these protests did not bear fruit in response to the demands of the youth.
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    A year since the "Iraq Revolution" ... 600 dead, 30,000 wounded, and a new government
    In October 2019, unprecedented demonstrations erupted across Iraq calling for the overthrow of the ruling political class, but after a year in which a new government was formed, during which nearly 600 demonstrators fell and 30,000 were injured, almost nothing has changed.
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    For her part, Rawan suffered a lot from her participation in the October demonstrations. On her Iraqi identity, he wrote that the place of birth is "Tripoli, Libya", as her parents had to flee Iraq before her birth to escape from the previous regime, and she gave birth there in 2003.
    After 18 years, Rawan left Babel Governorate in the south to Sulaymaniyah in Kurdistan in the north, due to threats against her, similar to dozens of activists from the "October Revolution".
    In the anti-corruption demonstrations, about 600 demonstrators were killed, while the campaign of intimidation and killing against activists continues despite the significant decline in the protests.
    Despite all the bad conditions she faced, Rawan believes that "what distinguishes this generation from the generations that preceded it is that it opened more to the world of technology."
    "Our generation opened its eyes and had a view of life in other countries and began to compare its situation to that of other countries," she added.
    Amid the climate of fear and deprivation, Hussein and Rawan believe that the demand for rights, demonstrations and work to change the political system should continue. "Political change is not easy," Rawan says, "but the future of my country depends on our generation."
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