Demonstrators leave at behest of their leaders,who are demanding the formation of a unusual cabinet and government reformUp to 5000 demonstrators who set up camp in the heart of Baghdad’s fortified green zone began to leave after protest leaders delivered an ultimatum that called for an overhaul of Iraq’s crippled government, and vowed to return if reforms failed.
The withdrawal on Sunday was ordered by senior leaders of the Sadrist movement, and whose members had walked past soldiers into the most secure fragment of the Iraqi capital over the weekend,in the most dramatic challenge to state authority in post-Saddam Iraq.
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Source: theguardian.com