{"id":2348,"date":"2017-12-20T10:10:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T11:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/troops-lock-down-iraqi-kurdistans-second-city-after-protests\/"},"modified":"2017-12-20T10:10:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T11:10:42","slug":"troops-lock-down-iraqi-kurdistans-second-city-after-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/troops-lock-down-iraqi-kurdistans-second-city-after-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Troops lock down Iraqi Kurdistan's second city after protests"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Heavily armed troops and anti-riot police locked down Iraqi Kurdistan’s second city Sulaimaniyah on Wednesday after two days of protests killed five people and wounded nearly 200 across the region.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\n\tArmored personnel carriers, water cannon and trucks mounted with machine guns were stationed at all of the city’s main crossroads, an AFP correspondent reported.<\/p>\n

\n\tIraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi warned against attacking protesters in the country’s northern semi-autonomous Kurdish region.<\/p>\n

\n\t“We would not stand idly by if any citizen were attacked or suppressed. The Iraqi citizens are equal everywhere. We will punish those who attack any citizen,” he said on Tuesday, Press TV reported.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe announcement was made several hours after Kurdish security forces fatally shot five protesters as demonstrations continued there amid widespread anger over unpaid salaries and corruption.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere was virtually no traffic and most shops were closed, particularly around the central Saray Square, the epicenter of the protests against the disastrous fallout from an independence referendum, the AFP report added.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe September vote delivered a resounding “yes” for secession, but drew sweeping reprisals from Baghdad which dealt a heavy blow to Kurdistan’s already flagging economy.<\/p>\n

\n\tAbadi also urged Kurdistan\u2019s government to \u201crespect the peaceful protests.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier, hundreds of protesters took to streets in at least six cities in Sulaymaniyah Province.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe protestors torched the local government building in the town of Kwaisanjaq.<\/p>\n

\n\tProtesters have vented their anger against all five of the autonomous Kurdish region’s main political parties, not just the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) of former regional president Massud Barzani, who organized the fateful referendum.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the town of Rania, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Sulaimaniyah, where the five protesters were killed on Tuesday, demonstrators defied a heavy security presence to take to the streets for a third straight day.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe crowd turned its anger on the offices of the Goran party, which control the governor’s office in Sulaimaniyah Province, pelting it with stones, witnesses said.<\/p>\n

\n\tDemonstrators had already torched the offices of the KDP, its historical rival the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Islamic Union on Tuesday. They also seized the mayor’s office.<\/p>\n

\n\tPrime Minister Nechirvan Barzani, the ex-president’s nephew, issued an appeal for calm from Germany where he was on a visit on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\n\t“The region is going through a difficult period. Your frustrations are understandable and I hear them,” he said.<\/p>\n

\n\t“But violence is unacceptable. I ask you to hold peaceful demonstrations.”<\/p>\n

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