Al-Maliki during a meeting with a delegation of the families of Basra Tuesday, February 22 2011
Maliki reveals the involvement of 33 of the leaders of the Baath demonstrations and events Wasit
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, on Tuesday, the dissolved Baath party responsible for the events of Wasit province, adding that 33 of the Baath leadership was behind the burning of government institutions in Kut, warned against the infiltrators associated with foreign agendas have entered the country to stir up sedition.
Maliki said during a meeting with a delegation of tribal province of Basra, Baghdad and attended "Alsumaria News", "33 members of the teams ousted Baath party were behind the burning, which affected the governmental institutions in the province of Wasit, and their names known to the security forces," adding "the arrest of nine of them. "
Maliki said he was pleased "what he has heard the appeals launched by the heads of tribes and political parties, scientists, and invite people to beware of those stalkers who seek to exploit the events," noting that "these income part of them to Iraq now to raise this fitnah which is associated with an agenda of Foreign Affairs."
Maliki confirmed his Government's support to the demands of the demonstrators, saying "We support the demands of the masses and the ministers will go to the provinces according to a specific program for the demands of the demonstrators."
The Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has questioned yesterday, during a meeting with a delegation from the teachers union targets the truth of the events taking place in the country for more than two weeks, and considered that good and innocent Iraqi people, making it unable to drive himself in the demonstrations led by some of those who he described as "those intentions bad. "
A number of intellectuals and young Iraqis called for by the social networking site facebook to a peaceful demonstration Magdy Rady on the twenty-fifth of this month in Baghdad to demand the provision of services and employment opportunities and the elimination of unemployment and corruption rampant in the country, have called themselves the name of the Revolution of Iraq's major anti-corruption or Movement on Feb. 25.
The country has since more than two weeks, popular demonstrations inspired by the events that roam the Arab countries, which have led so far to the fall of political systems in Tunisia, Egypt, and the concentrated demands of the demonstrators in Iraq to provide services and employment opportunities and the maintenance of freedom and to ensure freedom of expression as well as punish corrupt people in the state.
It was witnessed provinces of Karbala, Najaf, Wasit, Maysan, Basra and Mosul, Diwaniya, Kirkuk, Babil and Anbar provinces, Muthanna, last week and the past few days, protests against the poor services provided to citizens, and protesters held political blocs responsibility for deterioration of the situation of services, and demanded that the Iraqi parliament to work to reduce the salaries of its members and officials of the government and the judiciary administrative corruption in government departments and institutions, and securing the ration card items in full.
Was launched last Wednesday, in Wasit demonstration attended by some two thousand protesters, they bent to break into the governorate building and occupation after he fired the security forces fired at them killing one person and injured 49 people, and pretending to hundreds of residents of the province of Sulaymaniyah, since last Thursday, in the yard Serail central province, to demand government reforms and the fight against corruption and corrupt, has landed them two dead and more than 110 wounded in clashes between them and the security men.