Social media broadcast a video showing Iraqi demonstrators fiercely confronting tear gas bombs fired by members of the security forces and throwing them back near Tahrir Square in central Baghdad.
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Activists also broadcast another video showing security forces firing tear gas directly at the demonstrators.
Tear gas being fired directly at protestors. How many times have we seen head shots like this. This is not accidental, it is systematic. No reasonable ROEs would allow this. Same effect as live fire with bullets, intent is to kill / seriously wound pic.twitter.com/3goFPdkVVM - Sajad jiyad (@ sajad jiyad) |
Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi ordered the anti-terrorism forces to deploy on the streets of the capital last night.
This comes after the bloody and continuous protests since Friday left 63 people dead and about 2600 wounded, at a time called on Sadr leader Muqtada al-Sadr, the prime minister and the political elites to resign, or face the dismissal if there were no reforms to contain the crisis of demonstrations escalating in many provinces where the demands of demonstrators focused on improving the reality The living and the departure of the political class.