 [SHAFAQ] Iraq in 2021 is still a state afflicted by poverty, injustice, the trauma of great loss of life, and daily fear. Iraqis still suffer from a sense of powerlessness, defeat and humiliation. Since the start of the year, 330 civilians have been killed, including 27 children. Iraq Body Count has now documented more than 208,800 violent mostly peaceful civilian deaths since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, most of them occurring after the country became a democracy in 2005.
| Far from reaching "the end of history", the pursuit of neoliberal transformation by successive Iraqi governments has produced a dystopian economy and a failed state. |
Democratically elected governments in Iraq, supported by the US-UK coalition that invaded and occupied Iraq in March 2003, as part of the ’War on Terror’, have so far killed more than 4,000 Iraqi civilians through bombing and shelling aimed to destroy the insurgency and in the last years the Iraqi police force and militias it supports have killed hundreds of protesters across Iraq. The Iraqi governments also allowed the killing of thousands more in Arclight airstrike
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s by Coalition and Ottoman Turkish forces or Iranian-supported militias such as the Popular Mobilisation Forces. |