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Drugs in Iraq between the past and the present

 

Drugs in Iraq between the past and the present

 

It is no secret to the reader that drugs are the scourge of the age at the present time, and there is hardly a country in the world that this scourge has not reached, but the matter for Iraq is different. Before the invasion, that is, before 2003, Iraq was far from this scourge, whether at the level of trade or abuse. The state was dealing with this issue at that time with a very great deterrent force, as the law was applied to whoever carries or promotes one gram of drugs with the same intensity. With those who trade it in large quantities or even take it personally, which formed a real deterrent force that led to drying up the sources of this phenomenon in the country, and in terms of classification, Iraq was considered a transit country, not a country of abuse or trafficking.

Of course, and like many other things that took a different course after 2003, drug abuse became disastrously widespread in the country, as a statistic emerged from Ibn Al-Rushd Hospital for Psychiatric Diseases indicating the presence of three addicts out of every ten individuals aged between 18-30, and another statistic indicated The National Anti-Narcotics Authority reported in 2009 that there were 16,000 registered addicts, including more than 1,000 children, in Baghdad alone, a figure that constitutes a real shock that threatens the occurrence of an actual catastrophe within the country amidst strange silence from successive governments and patchwork solutions that do not rise to the level of the disaster.

As for the real reasons behind the matter, they are many and varied, starting with the existence of a real authority of the law before 2003 and the existence of an actual state that exercises its work by applying deterrent laws that would preserve society, which is missing from the group of meager entities that run the Iraqi state today, which is limiting The same or a large proportion of them are involved in the trade of this scourge and flooding the country with it, down to the levels of unemployment and illiteracy that have spread frighteningly in the past two decades, passing through the control of militias over the border crossings, ending with the turbulent conditions in the region surrounding Iraq, especially Syria, which has become the first source of drugs in the region From 2012 to the present day.

There is no doubt that it is in the interest of any corrupt entity that controls a rich country like Iraq to drown the country with this scourge, targeting the youth group that constitutes the real pillar of the country’s advancement. At a time when Iraq is witnessing the spread of drugs among the youth, the parties and their militia arms continue to loot the country’s goods in a barbaric manner that will have dire consequences for the youth. The next generations

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political studies

Demographic change in the modern history of Iraq (the Faili Kurds)

Demographic change in the modern history of Iraq (the Faili Kurds)

Faili Kurds are one of the components of the Iraqi fabric and among the most oppressed since the establishment of the Iraqi state to 2003 and even after 2003, and they were not treated fairly compared to what happened to them during the past decades. Faili Kurds live in border areas in Diyala and Wasit governorates, in Sulaymaniyah, Halabjah and areas of Baghdad. The other section lives in the western regions of Iran. They are Shiite Muslims and speak a language different from the Kurdish language spoken in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Faili Kurds were subjected to forced displacement from their areas, deportation and stripping of Iraqi citizenship, which affected a large number of them. The situation even reached the forced divorce and separation of husbands on charges of dependence on Iran, which caused them great problems at the family, social and economic level, and a large part of them lost their money and interests in Iraq. This was due to the material and political interests of influential figures in the government at the time – unfortunately. After the year 2003, Failis became divided between supporters of the central government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government. The reason for this is due to several things, including tribalism, geographical division, and intellectual mixing between their ideological and national thought, and this division is one of The most important reasons that did not enable them to obtain their entitlements and return their stolen rights during the past decades, and most of them adhere to the Iraqi national identity.

The lack of agreement among the politicians among them after the year 2003 led to the dispersal of the votes of the electorate and their lack of adequate representation in the central government. In addition, the Kurdistan government did not allocate a quota for the Feyin Kurds, at least, like the other minorities in Kurdistan, and they did not have a military wing like the other components until ISIS occupied Large areas of Iraq, so they established an armed faction led by Sheikh Adnan Shafi to fight the terrorist organization ISIS, and their fighters showed high degrees of courage, discipline and professionalism,

In addition to all of the above, they do not have any external support that strengthens their position, like other components, which led to making them a maneuvering card between the ruling Shiite parties and the Kurdistan government.

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The Iraqi arena after the election results ….!

Insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results ……

The Iraqi street is witnessing today in the various governorates of the country a state of turmoil. Despite the end of the elections and voting operations after many people and forces bet on the failure of the electoral process and the exclusion of the possibility of holding early elections, what happened was not expected.

In short, these elections are no different from the previous ones in the past years in terms of procedure, transparency, credibility and integrity, and the matter is known to the entire Iraqi people.

But what happened yesterday came as a great shock to some, as the statements began to warn that one component would enter into conflict with itself.

After the announcement of the election results, which witnessed a significant decline of a number of political entities and forces, and the advancement of other entities, this progress was not expected, and new entities entered the political process as well. In addition to the success of a good number of independent candidates, the electoral surprises began as the Sadrist movement obtained A large number of parliament seats, which will enable it to form a government with a majority in the event of forming a coalition that includes the current and one or two other entities from the entities that have obtained a good number of seats. As for the reality and what is happening on the scene currently, we see an escalation in the media and meetings of political blocs that reject the election results. She calls it fake and accuses parties of stealing their votes. It is not hidden from the reader that votes were bought, as is the case with all previous electoral processes, and the manipulation of electoral centers by political parties, which took place in the various governorates of the country, where we saw in many video clips blackmail operations for a group of clan mobilization to vote for a particular person.

We have already mentioned in a study of the Zulfikar Center before the elections
In it, we talked about the current scenario, which predicts the outbreak of a conflict between the political blocs and their armed arms on the ground.
One of the strange paradoxes in this electoral process is the participation rate, which according to many independent observers, did not exceed 17%, the figure, which the Commission, in turn, said was incorrect, and that the percentage amounted to 49%.

The laughable and crying thing is really as if the Commission was bragging about this shameful percentage. The matter went beyond this limit, as the Commission announced certain results on its website and then withdrew them.
and produce other results.
It should be noted here that the center does not adopt the result of a certain bloc, neither support nor opposition, but the matter has become a kind of fantasy, a reality that cannot be found in another country.

We saw statements from the leader of the Sadrist movement, who has the largest number of votes, a new statement that we did not know before, in which he used strong phrases addressed to the entities at home and to the surrounding regional countries abroad, and following the announcement, we also heard many statements by militia leaders, most notably the statement that threatened to burn the headquarters of the movement thoracic;
On the other hand, many candidates presented their evidence on tapes that the announced voting rates against them are not real and that the actual number is much more than that, which may force the commission to recount manually.

In conclusion, the coming days are full of surprises and carry a lot in this regard.

 

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