Thousands of people took to the street demanding job opportunities; they marched towards the city hall building in a peaceful demonstration, denouncing the unemployment and its impact.
The current authorities who promised a lot during the election campaign such as delivering better social services and job creation, have revealed their real faces and the extent of human hatred they stock up, giving the fact that they responded with opening fire on the people for the second time in one week (the first one was in Kirkuk, when 4 people were killed in a demonstration against the decree issued by the government to pump the price of fuel up three times the previous one).
The police opened fire on the unarmed people in a barbaric act killing 4 among them 13 years old boy and injuring 36 others, just because they demanded job opportunities.
The current government and the occupying troops have proven their incompetence in terms of creating jobs, not to mention other areas of poor performance in a course of almost 3 years. In fact the parties in power had no interest but securing their share in the government and forced the people to get involved in their endless conflict, while the people needs and aspirations were totally unthought-of. They promised to do well in their campaign and did completely otherwise after the election.
Killing the unemployed people will not back us down, however it strengthens us to expand and extend our struggle.
We call upon all workers to stand by the cause of the unemployed. We call upon the labor movement in all over the world to support our cause by all means. And stand against the US policy and its appointed government.
Long Live People Will
Federation of worker Councils and Unions in Iraq (FWCUI)
www.uuiraq.org
January 7th, 2006
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