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Tishreen protests in Baghdad (photo courtesy Enabling Peace in Iraq Center EPIC<\/a>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

October marks the second anniversary of Iraq\u2019s thawra. The non-violent Tishreen movement<\/a> continues to demand all the things many of us take for granted. Tens of thousands of Iraqis have marched in cities across the country. Notes Beau Beausoleil, editor of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here<\/em> anthology, \u201cThose marching are workers, students, professionals, writers and artists, women and men\u2026The Iraqi government brought down an iron fist on these activists and using its security services and government sponsored militias, killed more than 700 men and women and wounded more than 10,000\u2026A revolution that begins in the hearts of ordinary citizens cannot be erased by thugs and killers. The Iraqi people will rise again and again until true change comes to every Iraqi.\u201d [Ed.]<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hadani Ditmars<\/h4>\n

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A week after a thousand protestors marched in Tahrir Square to mark the two year anniversary of fierce protests in the Iraqi capital, and on the eve of elections, I remember watching them from my hotel room in Erbil, and wonder what has changed, and what will.<\/p>\n

From the cavernous confines of room 510 at the Classy Hotel, run by displaced Christians from the Niniveh Plain who had fled the advance of ISIS, and bordered by a statue of the Virgin Mary on one side and the American consulate on the other, I watched it all unfold on Kurdish television in the fall of 2019. During daily excursions to ruined Mosul, where not much has changed in two years thanks to rampant corruption, I learned that people were too afraid to protest. I recall footage of a young man in Baghdad with beautiful eyes, singing a song. Behind him was rubble and smoke. His mask lowered as he sang a poignant protest maqam:Iraq, Iraq, my love, my country. I will fight for you. I will never give up. He was singing for legions of followers on Facebook, the new forum for young freedom seekers, and mainly for people outside of Iraq, where the internet had not been cut off by desperate, corrupt politicians; but he was singing from the heart.<\/p>\n

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Iraqi boy as old as the invasion in Baghdad during 2010 elections, near Mutannabi street (photo courtesy Hadani Ditmars).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The image recalled one I had taken in 2010, on my last trip to the troubled land, of a boy as old then as the invasion. He stood on Baghdad\u2019s Mutannabi Street during the national election campaign, in front of an old Ottoman villa, once the home of a Jewish judge at a time when Baghdad was 40 percent Jewish, a time before concrete barriers separated neighborhoods across sectarian lines, and before a national protest movement united Iraqis across those same lines. His parents were Communists out campaigning for their candidate, the daughter of the poet Al Jawahari who once wrote:<\/p>\n

\u201cShout at the poor and the hungry, but only if you first insult their tormentors whose bellies are full.\u201d<\/p>\n

The boy wore a tiny golden pin in the shape of his country, close to his heart. His adult eyes stared into my camera with a sad defiance. On the edge of the frame, next to a Seljuk buttress, a soldier manned a tank. What had become of that boy now? I sometimes search for a decade-older version of the 7-year-old in the crowds of CNN; but in vain. Everyone has that same look of lonely defiance, the outrage of a lost generation raised only on war and televisual lies; protesting for jobs, for electricity and water, for a life.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no shortage of names and faces to mourn \u2013 hundreds of protestors and 35 activists killed since the latest round of protests began in October of 2019, by \u201cunknown entities,\u201d who most believe were powerful Iranian backed militias linked to the Iraqi government that will never be held to account.<\/p>\n

But this has been going on for some time. Who remembers activist Khaled al Kahlidi assassinated near his home in Kut, south of Baghdad, in 2015. Or another fresh-faced martyr of the anti-corruption protest movement \u2014 his likeness still being tweeted as he stands cautious but proud in a Tahrir Square selfie<\/a>, in front of Jawad Salim\u2019s famous Monument to Freedom. His eyes bear a premonitory sadness that seems to speak of all the martyrs to the Iraqi cause that have come before him, and those that will follow.<\/p>\n

Before the era of sham \u201cdemocracies\u201d run by corrupt cronyist thugs installed by an illegal and brutal invasion, I remember a time when freedom of speech in Baghdad was limited to staged press conferences by Baathist generals, and we journos had to pay \u201cguides\u201d \u2014 essentially spies from the Ministry of Information \u2014 for the privilege of their \u201cservices.\u201d In this Alice in Wonderland meets Kafka world of the dying days of the Saddam regime, I recall an \u201celection\u201d in 2002.<\/p>\n

Despite there being only one candidate who \u201cwon\u201d by \u201c100 percent,\u201d as the regime claimed, we were led to a polling station for a \u201cphoto-op.\u201d I asked a sympathetic \u201cminder\u201d why, in spite of the total lack of democracy, everyone seemed well-dressed and in good spirits \u2014 a kind of a \u201cday-out\u201d for beleaguered sanctions-plagued Iraqis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re pretending everything is normal,\u201d he explained, \u201cThey need to do this to survive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iraqis have been pretending everything is normal for quite some time now. But let\u2019s hope that the current \u201cpretense\u201d that Iraq is a democracy \u2014 where citizens have the right to basic services like clean water, electricity, a free press and a government that serves them and not themselves \u2014 becomes a reality.<\/p>\n

The change must, as always come from within, but more vigorous support for pro-democracy activists from the international community is key to the success of the growing movement that explicitly rejects the post-invasion sectarian cronyism and corruption that feeds the cycle of violence in Iraq.<\/p>\n

As I\u2019ve been saying for years, the way to encourage democracy in Iraq is not by supporting brutal dictators \u2014 pre- or post-invasion \u2014 bombing and starving a captive civilian populace for years, or participating in illegal invasions and occupations. The way forward is through supporting civil society.<\/p>\n

The current Iraqi protest movement is living proof of the incredible resilience of a long-suffering people who, while trapped in circumstances beyond their control, persist in fighting for their basic human rights. Let us hope they continue to protest and speak out without fatal consequences, regardless of whichever corrupt crony wins the elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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