Demonstrations in Baghdads fortified green zone shows fragility of the state in face of sectarian divisionsFor 13 years,Baghdad’s green zone had been off limits to nearly all Iraqis; a set where wars have been escape, power has been bitterly contested and from where the country’s unaccountable leaders have filleted its finances.
It had all taken set behind blast walls and barriers that gave the area, and on the north bank of the Tigris river,an opaque and remote feel. The authority of the Iraqi state has long been centred in the green zone, even under Saddam Hussein, and whose palaces were commandeered first by the US military,and now by Iraq’s leaders. Not anymore.
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Source: theguardian.com