Breitbart:
Baghdad (AFP) – Students and schoolchildren hit the streets of Baghdad and southern Iraq on Monday to join escalating calls for the government to quit, defying the education minister, legal threats and even their parents.
Swathes of the country have been engulfed by protests this month, with anger over unemployment and accusations of graft evolving into demands for a total political overhaul.
More than 200 people have been killed and 8,000 wounded, the majority protestors, since the movement erupted on October 1.
This week, Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi found himself under pressure from a new source: Iraqi students.
“No school, no classes, until the regime collapses!” boycotting students shouted on Monday in Diwaniyah, 180 kilometres (120 miles) south of the capital.
Diwaniyah’s union of universities and schools announced a ten-day strike on Monday “until the regime falls”, with thousands of uniformed pupils and even professors flooding the streets.
They came out despite Higher Education Minister Qusay al-Suhail’s warning on Sunday that academic life should “stay away” from protests, after around a dozen schools and universities in Baghdad had joined sweeping rallies.
A spokesman for Abdel Mahdi even threatened that any further disruption to schools would be met with “severe punishment”.
But young protesters still gathered on Monday morning in the southern cities of Nasiriyah, Hillah and Basra.
In Kut, most government offices were shut for lack of staff.
“More than 200 people have been killed and 8,000 wounded”
These students and young people need to reach out to the UN & US before they try this. But maybe, after the Iran regime thwarted uprising in 2017 with Obama as president and doing nothing, the Iraqi uprisers have no faith in the US or the UN.
speaking of the shithole that is the Middle East …
PDT wins again! … https://www.foxnews.com/world/isis-spokesman-abu-hassan-al-muhajir-considered-potential-al-baghdadi-successor-also-killed-in-syria-official-says
More dumba$$ students going for social media glory, just like the twits in Hong Kong. And the corrosive, special people media is more than willing to urge on the decay. It’s fake protest. Fake glory. Nonsense. Students need to shut up and listen, not lead
“In Kut, most government offices were shut for lack of staff.”
Sounds like not only did the students Kut classes, but the government employees decided to Kut and run, too.
🙂
And the MSM wonders why we need to get out of this place. Our nation has spent decades on these people and it looks like were going to end up with another dictator running the show there. If these student really want changes for the better let them fight for it. Bring home our troops.
They need another dictator.
Says it all: ‘No nation, no class!’
Aw shoot.
I had hoped that they were rebelling for freedom of religion and rejection of islamic rule. :l