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| Mookie's morons protest sectarian violence in Kut | |
| 2013-03-17 | |
Tens of thousands of people have taken to streets in the southeastern Iraqi city of Kut to express their anger at sectarian violence in the country, Press TV reports. The protesters, who were the supporters of Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, chanted anti-US slogans during the demonstration.
In an address to the crowd, Sadr, who heads a powerful bloc in the Iraqi parliament, warned people against being dragged into sectarian violence amid rising political tensions in the country. The incident comes as people in some western parts of Iraq have staged protests against the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, accusing him of discrimination. Maliki rejects the accusations. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |