Iraqis launch a campaign to root out al-Maliki’s followers .. and Karbala governor may be the first uprooted!
Iraqis launch a campaign to root out al-Maliki’s followers .. and Karbala governor may be the first uprooted!
16-10-2014 01:25 AM
Only hours did not pass on the demonstration in Baghdad to demand the prosecution of former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, and the governor of Karbala, Akil Turaihi, against the backdrop of what he called the name of the demonstrators ‘massacre of Karbala’, even the provincial council announced that he will vote on the dismissal of Turaihi next week.
A member of the provincial council, Mohammed Talqani, in a statement, that ‘the absence of the Governor for the questioning session demonstrates the inability to answer questions directed to him’, noting that ‘pulling him to lose his right to self-defense in the session’, which was devoted to the discussion of 14 dossier accuses Turaihi arbitrariness and corruption and committing financial and administrative irregularities.
He explained Talqani, that the governor sign himself in trouble after he lost the opportunity to show what he proves his innocence in front of the media, after the reports about the wasting of public money and neglect career and arbitrary use of power.
In a related context, stressed member of the Karbala Provincial Council, Mohammed al-Moussawi, the Council probe on the legal aspects relating to the procedure Turaihi questioning, denying the existence of any political or personal target for the governor.
On the other hand, accused a member of the provincial council in Karbala, Majid Said al-Maliki, political views within the local government that they are looking for positions and privileges through the interrogation process, calling out to be all meetings of the Council, including the interrogation process is open to the public.
Hundreds of supporters of the Shiite cleric, Mahmoud al-Hassani Sarkhi, has demonstrated, last Tuesday, in front of the Iraqi Foreign Ministry to demand the trial of former Iraqi prime minister and the governor of Karbala after accusing them of killing and kidnapping hundreds of Abkhien, and representation before the bodies of the dead burned.
Referred to the governor of Karbala is one of the most prominent men of al-Maliki, since contributed significantly to the implementation of the campaign, which targeted the office and supporters Sarkhi, who fled to an unknown destination after he faced charges of creating chaos and supporting ‘terrorism’, as well as the killing and the arrest of hundreds of his supporters.
And witnessed the provinces of Baghdad and Karbala, Basra, Dhi Qar, Maysan and Qadisiyah frequent demonstrations to demand the submission of al-Maliki and Turaihi to justice.
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