Video Two women were shot dead in Baghdad .. Assassinations rock Iraq.

 Video Two women were shot dead in Baghdad .. Assassinations rock Iraq.
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Video of the killing of two women in Baghdad .. Assassinations rock Iraq
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June 09, 2020



A woman shouts slogans as she takes part with Iraqi protesters in an an anti-government demonstration on Al-Jumhuriyah bridge…
Demonstrators in Tahrir Square in Baghdad escalate the demonstrations
Iraq was rocked by three assassinations, in which four people were killed, they are an activist in Nasiriyah, two women were killed in Baghdad by an armed man, and another person was killed by a bullet to the head in the capital as well. This raises concern over the return of assassinations and the targeting of activists who demonstrate against Iranian corruption and influence.

Tuesday evening, Baghdad time, gunmen killed the Iraqi activist Ahmed Nawfal, who has emerged in the demonstrations of Nasiriyah, causing shock in the squares of the sit-in of Dhi Qar Governorate.

One of Nawfal's colleagues told Al-Hurra that he was "urging a peaceful demonstration, and publicly rejected the attack by people on a health center in Dhi Qar," posing as protesters.
A source from the Baghdad Police Command said, "Initial investigations show a high possibility that the accident will be criminal," adding that the two women "have no remarkable commercial or political activity or known enemies." Iraqi activists accuse the authorities of not pursuing and exposing the perpetrators of the assassinations, noting that the police invoke the background of the criminal incidents.

The source, who asked "Al-Hurra" to remain anonymous, said that "similar incidents happen frequently".

An activist was killed by a bullet to the head in the Karrada area on Monday, and social media pages reported the news of his killing, as citizens indicated that he was active in the movement in Iraq.

Al-Hurra has tried to obtain comment from the official authorities on the recent series of attacks, which cause citizens concern, to no avail.

The assassinations of Iraqi activists did not stop. On May 16 last, Iraqi lawyer and activist Daoud Al-Hamdani was assassinated in Diyala Governorate.

Al-Hamdani was assassinated in the month of Ramadan, just minutes before Iftar, in the Sheikh Nahr area of ​​the Al-Fattah sub-district.

Last January, a civilian activist was killed by an armed attack in the city of Basra in southern Iraq, a security source told AFP, as protests continued to demand long-awaited political reforms.

Iraqi activists point fingers at the militias loyal to Iran to pursue the activists by assassinating, kidnapping and assaulting them, and the demonstrators are calling on Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi to hold those involved accountable, as the latter promised to take decisive measures in this file.

The popular protests that started for the first time in Baghdad and the Shiite-dominated cities of the south in October 2019, to demand the fight against corruption and unemployment and the change of the political class that has monopolized the government for 17 years, have calmed down at the beginning of this year with the outbreak of the Corona epidemic, but returned again.

About a month after the new Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, took power, protests continue from time to time, despite the government’s curfew and security measures to prevent the spread of the Corona epidemic.

Despite his vast oil wealth, the country suffers from a severe shortage of public services and high unemployment, and one in five Iraqis lives below the poverty line, according to the World Bank.

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