Prayers, candles and blood at makeshift Baghdad martyrs' museum

[Disir]

A plastic helmet with a gaping bullet hole. A bloodsoaked T-shirt suspended next to a row of bloodsoaked flags. Tear gas grenades lined up in columns. Photo after photo of young men, on posters that bear the dates their government killed them.

What started as an ad hoc shrine to Iraqis killed in protests against government corruption has become a museum and memorial to scores of dead, a place of prayer and quiet reflection at the heart of Baghdad’s Tahrir square.

After two months of protests against a government widely viewed as corrupt and beholden to outside powers, Iraqis young and old have been converging on the makeshift museum to pay respects.
Prayers, candles and blood at makeshift Baghdad martyrs' museum

They have lost 450 in this city alone.

 

[sparky]

Praying for them is the least we can do. I hope we gain our rights and be victorious.”

There's nothing quite as malleable as the theocratic mind.....

S~

 

[Disir]

Praying for them is the least we can do. I hope we gain our rights and be victorious.”

There's nothing quite as malleable as the theocratic mind.....

S~

Ya. The flip side is........you have 3 generations that have a lengthy history of war and at least 2 that have never known what peace looks like. Not sure what the hell the survivors are supposed to hang on to.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Plastic helmet?

 

[eagle1462010]

Civil unrest is happening there and in Iran.........their is a possible Civil War about to break in both countries........

Against the Theologies and their Religious Enforcers............The Cast is set for a potential Bloody Civil War in both countries.

 

[theHawk]

Islamic countries are the best.