TNT: "REFORMS ANNOUNCED" 10/25/19

by **RamblerNash** Fri Oct 25, 2019 10:49 pm

OKRocks:
UPDATES: Iraq police fire live rounds, tear gas to disperse Baghdad protesters

2 hours ago | 12.17 p.m.

‘We want to topple the state’

Protesters gathered near Baghdad’s Tahrir Square say they are no longer interested in their original demands of tackling unemployment, corruption, and the lack of public services. They are now calling for the overthrow of the government.

In footage of Friday’s unrest, protesters can be heard chanting: “Parties out, out! Baghdad will remain free!”

“We, alongside the youth, are out not for jobs or anything. We want to topple the state. We want a homeland because these [in power] are useless,” one protester told Rudaw.

“We want a homeland. We want to live like other Arab states,” he added. “Today, God willing, it is either us, or them.”

Ambulances have been seen racing through Baghdad transporting the wounded to local hospitals.

“The demands of the people are clear. They want to change the corrupt political system of the past 16 years, and of before that as well,” said another protester.

The ruling parties have caused the spread of illiteracy and poverty and have divided Iraq's resources among themselves, the protester added. “We want a new Iraq, a country we believe in, we want reassurance, democracy, and freedom.”

In the run up to the resumption of protests on Friday morning, the Iraqi interior ministry and the prime minister said measures were being taken to protect the safety of protesters.

“The government continues its lies, promising to protect peaceful protesters, but there is repression,” the protester said.

A member of the security forces in Tahrir Square told Rudaw they are not against the protesters, blaming the fatal shootings on the armed militias of Iraq’s political parties.

“We are with them, not against them. It is the parties that are shooting them. It is impossible that security forces hurt the protesters,” the riot policeman said.

11.10 a.m.
Tear gas, live ammunition

Iraqi police have used tear gas and fired live rounds into the air to disperse protesters gathering near the Green Zone in the capital Baghdad, where anti-government demonstrations resumed on Friday, according to Rudaw’s reporter at the scene.

Iraq protests: ‘Even if they kill 200 more on Friday, we won’t go home this time’

Images are already emerging of wounded protesters being carried away and others being detained by security forces. There are also images of protesters pulling down concrete barriers and barbed wire fences protecting government buildings in the fortified Green Zone.

Protesters say at least one person has been killed. Rudaw has not be able to independently verify the claim. .......
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/25102019

OKRocks:
They are now calling for the overthrow of the government.https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/25102019

Suggar:
rock with all that is going on that I think that is one thing that money can solve ASAP

Kozmo:
Reforms were announced by the GOI but nothing about changing the currency rate.

Mobius:
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A protester died in Baghdad on Friday, after being struck in the face by a tear gas canister, police and medical sources said. Iraqi security forces used tear gas and stun grenades to repel crowds who began marching toward Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests-toll/one-person-dead-in-baghdad-anti-government-protests-idUSKBN1X41BG?il=0

Cutebwoy:
Unknown persons burn the headquarters of the stream of wisdom in Samawa

2019/10/25 06:01:13

Unidentified assailants burned the headquarters of the stream of wisdom headed by Ammar al-Hakim in a province in the city of Samawa in the province of Muthanna in southern Iraq.

The incident comes as dozens of protesters stormed the Muthanna provincial office building.