Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Will Iraq's Demonstrations be peaceful ~ Bayati warns of internal and external attempts to confuse the goals of popular demonstrations ...


Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Bayati warns of internal and external attempts to confuse the goals of popular demonstrations

Alsumaria News / Baghdad

Warned a leading role in a coalition of state law, Tuesday, from the efforts of some States to employ "subversive elements" to confuse the goals of the demonstrations true, pointing at the same time that he might seek some political parties at home, "to ride the wave and benefit from the implementation of their agendas private."

The leader Abbas al-Bayati said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "the ongoing demonstrations are demonstrations Iraqi popularity reflects the genuine demands of the Iraqi people, and even though we do not have the information or figures on the presence of incitement by some countries," adding that "this does not mean the exclusion of that some States are seeking to employ subversive elements, in order to interfere with the objectives of the demonstrations. "

He said al-Bayati, a leader of the coalition of state law, chaired by Nuri al-Maliki said that "noise comes not only from the outside," saying "I do not Nspad to seek some political parties at home to ride the wave and benefit from the implementation of their agendas."

He said al-Bayati, "We count on the awareness of the demonstrators and maturity, and we have full confidence that they will not allow any mass or political group that ride the wave and employed in the rivalries of political, as we have confidence that they will not allow any third party to benefit from their actions are bad," stressing that "the people Iraqi unable to express his opinion and demands of all freedom. "

It was the religious authority, Ali al-Sistani endorsed last Friday in an advisory opinion and deployed his office in Najaf, the demonstrations witnessed by several cities recently against the lack of services and demands for reform, the condition to be peaceful and would not affect the interests and public and private property.

The country has since the beginning of this month, 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, in recent weeks, 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 government officials and the eradication of corruption administrative departments and government institutions, and securing the ration card items in full, and was launched on Wednesday last, 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, as demonstrated Dozens of residents of Sulaymaniyah province, last Thursday, in the courtyard of palace amid the province, to demand government reforms and the fight against corruption and the corrupt, and tried to storm the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, responded to protect the headquarters opened fire on them, killing five and wounding 45 others, others, while Peshmerga forces were seen moving from the province of Sulaymaniyah, Erbil to control the situation.

A number of intellectuals and young Iraqis called for by the social networking site facebook to a peaceful demonstration Magdy Rady said on Friday 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 the movement of Feb. 25.