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Iraq for the Iraqis! Massive protests in Iraq
frontlines (fwd) - 19.04.2003 15:29
Over 200,000 Iraqis Demonstrate in Baghdad and other cities: "Iraq for the Iraqis!"
While some mainstream media reports in the US focused on one of the demonstrations, with 12,000 people who marched through Downtown Baghdad, the scope and breadth of the mass mobilizations at many other sites went mainly unreported.
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It is too early to tell whether this growing opposition movement against the US/British presence in Iraq will develop into a powerful movement of resistance or will be channeled by Shia and Sunni leaders into pressure movements to obtain better positions for emerging leaders of both communities in the face of the collapse of Saddam's regime and the deep crisis of the Baath Party.
An Italian journalist in Baghdad told Frontlines that “I see the evolving political situation as a very complex one. The removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power has removed a heavy lid that maintained all the issues of Iraqi society unresolved, but also created new issues as important as those.”
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