https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-45441848Protesters have attacked government and other key buildings in the southern Iraqi city of Basra as thousands again took to the streets, angry over corruption and the lack of services.
"The people protest and the government doesn't care, treats them as vandals," a 25-year-old demonstrator told the AFP news agency.
People in the city are angry about the lack of basic services, including drinking water, and jobs.
Local residents say the government is corrupt and has allowed infrastructure to virtually collapse in the region that generates much of Iraq's oil wealth.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/09/ ... 59694.htmlSouthern Iraq, heartland of the Shia majority, has erupted in unrest in recent weeks as protesters express their rage over collapsing infrastructure, power cuts and corruption.
Public anger has grown at a time when politicians are struggling to form a new government after an inconclusive parliamentary election in May. Residents of the south complain of decades of neglect in the region that produces the bulk of Iraq's oil wealth.
Residents in Basra, a city of more than two million people, say the water supply has become contaminated with salt, making them vulnerable and desperate in the hot summer months.
Izgleda kao sveopsti ustanak stanovnika Basre protiv vlade nesposobnog Abadija i njegove kriminalne klike.