Farah Salem

Recent demonstrations in Iraq against poor services and rampant corruption - which were clearly absent from any party representation - many believe that the Iraqi street will not return as before.

The protests have killed more than 110 people and injured more than 6,000 others, including security personnel.

The President of the Psychological Association Qasim Hussein Saleh that the reasons that made these demonstrations different in the results is the distinction that the majority of participants are young people and they are not ideological, and have no public leadership.

He said the demonstrations were concentrated in the central and southern provinces, which are predominantly Shiite, and are considered as incubators for political parties that have been in power since 2003.

He added that there is a psychological theory says that the repetition of disappointments and failures lead to frustration, which led officials to believe that the possibility of protests of this magnitude and this awareness, where the youth removed this theory and dropped it.

The head of the Psychological Association ruled out the possibility of returning things before the first of October this year, "fear is no longer a place in the hearts of the rising youth who saw the security forces killing his brother, friend and co-worker unlawfully."

Injured in Baghdad (Websites)

Insistence .. Pride
Rasha Abdul Wahid, a computer science student at Baghdad University, said that the demonstrations in the country were different from the previous ones. "For years, I have not seen demonstrations in the street without prior arrangement and without clear leadership, as happened recently."

"I thought the curfew would end everything, but it was just the opposite."

"We exchange a lot of conversations every day about what happened in the past few days," she says. ".

"I received threatening messages from different accounts on my Twitter account because I started the demonstrations to publish and convey the image of what happened on the ground," said one young man, who has been subjected to a lot of threats because of his participation in the demonstrations from the beginning until the temporary suspension.

"I see that the form of the picture after the demonstrations is quite different. Young people have contributed to breaking the sacred framework and exposing politicians and traders of religion to a large segment of the people."

And about the role of the media, among the young man - who preferred to remain anonymous - that these means contributed to uncovering a lot of facts and drop the "idolatry" of many people, but we have despite the narrowing the ability to name things by their names, and I think this step represents the best thing that happened "Personally, despite my grief over the friends who died in these events, but I am proud and happy with what has been achieved so far."

One of the capital's demonstrations earlier this month (Anatolia)

Useless
On the other hand, others considered that the recent demonstrations will not affect the ground and will not change the deteriorating situation, and will be like its predecessors, where the street erupts for days and then calm down with theoretical decisions that have no impact on the ground.

Soha Khalil al-Mashhadani, a teacher at a school for displaced people in Sulaimaniya (north), says the recent demonstrations were like her predecessors, adding that she regretted that the demonstrations caused the loss of more young Iraqis.

"Nothing will change, corruption will not end," she says, pessimistic. "They are a complex network in all parts of the state. They will not end with the voices of disorganized youth," she said.

For his part, the strategic analyst d. Hisham al-Hashemi, "Nothing has changed in the reality of Iraq, because change in the end with a cycle of grievances and then congestion and then demonstration demand and then demonstrations, then expand to the revolution, change."

He described d. Hashemi features recent demonstrations that "the renewal of young blood, and without leadership or political or religious identity, began with repeated slogans, but moved with great anger did not improve the security elements control their orientation."