Protests in Iraq Mark 2019 Protest Anniversary #shorts.

Hundreds of Iraqis gathered in Baghdad's central Tahrir square, with a smaller protest on Nusoor square, October 1, 2022, to mark the anniversary of anti-government unrest that erupted in 2019.

With concerns about the risk of street violence, security personnel deployed checkpoints across the city, closed off bridges and squares and erected walls across some of the bridges leading to the fortified Green Zone.

A few meters from the square, security forces fired tear gas to disperse stone-throwing protesters who had tried to tear down a wall blocking the Republic Bridge leading across the Tigris to the Green Zone.

A military statement said some “infiltrated elements” were assaulting security forces using Molotov cocktails and hunting rifles.

(Reuters)

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