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| Iraq |
| Iraqi security forces use water cannons to quell unemployment protests |
| 2019-09-27 |
| [Rudaw] Protestors demanding government action on postgraduate unemployment were hosed down with Iraqi security force water cannons on Wednesday, in an act condemned by a national human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... commission as an act "against freedom of expression." Iraqi master’s degree and PhD holders have been protesting outside ministry buildings in Baghdad since June, calling for measures to ease unemployment among postgraduates, including an increase in public sector jobs. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Guess they didn't use China's trick of adding water color dye to mark the Hong Kong protesters. Maybe sewage backwash? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-09-27 12:10 |