Human Rights Watch <https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/08/26/iraq-basra-political-group-targeted> (Beirut) – Unidentified gunmen have since August 14, 2020, assassinated two protesters and wounded another four, all linked to a youth protest group with political aspirations in Basra, in southern Iraq <https://www.hrw.org/middle-east/n-africa/iraq>, Human Rights Watch said today. They ar Who is Murdering Iraq’s anti-corruption Youth Protesters?
e the most recent victims of killings of hundreds of protesters in Baghdad and southern Iraq since October 2019, including by abusive security forces. The authorities have done little to stop the killings. Despite promises <https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/2293366/iraq-forms-committee-list-victims-violence-protests> since May from Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi for accountability for excessive use of force by security forces, no senior commanders have been prosecuted. Instead, a few commanders have been fired, and low-level security force members have been prosecuted. https://www.juancole.com/2020/08/murdering-corruption-protesters.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#923): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/923 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76460654/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES<br />#1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.<br />#2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived.<br />#3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
