Unidentified gunmen murdered a prominent Iraqi activist and member of the October demonstration coordination group. Ehab al-Wazni, yesterday in an armed attack in the al-Haddad area in Kerbala. The police of the governorate of Kerbala mobilized all their efforts in search of the perpetrators of the attack. Al-Wazni survived an attack in December 2019, just two months after the October 2019 demonstration in Iraq began.
Iraq, among the young rebels from Baghdad who dream of a country they have never seen: “Americans and Iranians out”
Pietro Del Re
The protests of October 2019 called for reforms in the Iraqi political system to end decades of corruption and sectarianism. Some Iraqi activists have expressed their sorrow on social media at the killing of Al-Wazni and some of them have pointed the finger at the Iranian-backed militias.
Baghdad’s late spring
by Pietro Del Re
Activist Raya Barazajani blamed “the corrupt government for failing to protect peaceful activists from Iranian-backed armed militias”. Another activist, Nawal Jaafar, said: “They (the killers) are the same militias that condemn Israel’s crimes against unarmed Palestinians. You twisted the (Palestinian) cause and killed everything good in my country. You are cowards. and criminals “.
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