Louise Nousratpour
Friday February 25, 2011
The Morning Star
More than a 100 protesters descended on the US embassy in London today to show their solidarity for anti-government demonstrations across Iraq.
The noisy protest was organised by a coalition of British-based Kurdish and Iraqi groups to coincide with "a day of rage" in cities across Iraq and the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region against the US-backed dictatorship, corruption, unemployment and lack of basic services.
Freedom Umbrella spokesman Dashty Jamal said that the mass demonstrations in Iraq had been inspired by the popular uprisings across the rest of the Middle East.
Speaking from the protest in London, Iraqi-born Mr Jamal described the government in Iraq as a farce and said that "the so-called 'war on terror' has stripped us off our basic rights, stolen our freedom and robbed our lives.
"Like Egypt and Tunisia, Iraqi people are rising up to demand an end to dictatorship and corruption in their country.
"We want unemployment benefits, jobs and basic services like electricity and running water. Our country is run by militiamen, with a minority controlling power and the oil. Workers and women have no rights."
Referring to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussein, Mr Jamal said: "This time the people of Iraq will remove their own dictator and decide their own fate."
Behind him, protesters chanted slogans calling on the US to stop supporting the "murderers" in the Iraqi regime and the Kurdistan regional government.
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