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There s little hope of Iraqi authorities bringing the killers of Ihab Al Wazni and other activists to justice, human rights groups and activists said. The civil society activist was shot dead last week in Karbala. His death sparked daylong protests in the southern holy city that saw demonstrators block roads and bridges with burning tyres.
“The groups behind these killings are extremely powerful to the point that the Iraqi state and law enforcement system is unable to hold them to account,” Belkis Wille, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch, told
The National.
“It means we have incredibly powerful armed groups that can perpetrate crimes with impunity on the streets of Iraq in broad daylight and the state cannot do much to curb these attacks,” he said.
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Cairo: Authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan have said they have arrested the alleged main perpetrator of last month’s rocket attack at the Erbil airport including a complex housing US forces.
The February 15 rocket attack killed one civilian contractor and injured a US service member and several American contractors.
The Kurdistan Region’s counterterrorism unit released video confessions of the alleged perpetrator of the attack, identified as Hayder Hamza Al Bayati.
Standing behind the attack is the Iran-allied group Kataib Sayyid Al Shuhada, an affiliate of the Iraqi umbrella militia Al Hashd Al Shabi or the Popular Mobilization Forces, according to the alleged attacker. He added that the rockets used in the attack were Iranian-made.
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Deadly clashes erupted between Iraqi security forces and anti-government protesters on Sunday in the southern city of Nasiriyah following the death of two activists and a policeman.
The protests started last Friday after security forces arrested an activist in the city’s Haboubi Square.
Footage showed protesters running and chanting while security forces confronted them with teargas and gunshots, injured. One policeman was killed and 33 others were injured during the events that took place today, Sunday, in the city of Nasiriyah, Dhi Qar Governorate,
the country s security forces said.
Two civilians were killed during the p
ast 48 hours, the Iraqi High Commission of Human Rights, told
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Iraqis were bitterly disappointed on Wednesday after US President Donald Trump pardoned four Blackwater security guards given lengthy sentences for killing 14 civilians in Baghdad in 2007.
Hassan Jabir, a survivor of the 2007 Nisour Square massacre in the country s capital, relived the horror of the moment he was shot.
“Blackwater contractors are criminals, they killed innocent people and maimed others,” Mr Jabir told
The National. and sparked outrage in Iraq over the use of private security guards in war zones.
Mr Jabir, who suffered severe injuries to his back, hands and abdomen, said Mr Trump’s decision is a breach of international law and human rights.
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