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Published: 26 May 2021 03:19 PM BdST
Updated: 26 May 2021 03:19 PM BdST Antigovernment protesters rally in Baghdad on Tuesday, May 25, 2021. The New York Times.
‘Who killed me?’ the signs asked, alongside images of dead men and women, among the roughly 80 Iraqi activists murdered since late 2019. Young demonstrators held aloft the posters in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square on Tuesday, illustrating both the enduring spark and diminished strength of Iraq’s anti-government protest movement. );
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The demonstrators (publicly) and Iraqi officials (privately) say they know who killed many of the activists: Iran-backed militias that have essentially crushed a grassroots anti-corruption movement that blames Iranian influence, and the militias, for many of Iraq’s ills. In a country where militias nominally a part of the security apparatus operate with impunity, the killers have gone unpunished.
Iraqi Activism Fights for Survival Amid Murders and Threats
A movement demanding a new kind of Iraq struggles to carry on, despite intimidation from Iranian-backed militias that are believed to have murdered dozens of activists.
Protesters and riot police on Tahrir Square in Baghdad on Tuesday.Credit.Andrea DiCenzo for The New York Times
May 25, 2021Updated 5:29 p.m. ET
BAGHDAD ‘Who killed me?’ the signs asked, alongside images of dead men and women, among the roughly 80 Iraqi activists murdered since late 2019. Young demonstrators held aloft the posters in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square on Tuesday, illustrating both the enduring spark and diminished strength of Iraq’s anti-government protest movement.