There are reports of spreading anti-corruption demonstrations and government crackdowns in Iraqi Kurdistan. (In March I visited the autonomous northern region and wrote about it on this blog.) Bill Weinberg at WW4 Report has links, including a statement from Houzan Mahmoud of the Worker Communist Party of Iraq, and this piece in Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. The RFE page contains links to additional coverage of the Kurdistan region.
Iraqi Kurdistan has a reputation as Iraq’s lone success story. But the ruling parties may fritter away that success if they institute harsher repression and fail to allay popular discontent.
There’s trouble brewing between Kurds and Shia in the south as well.
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