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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Shawn Yuan

Furore, indifference, confusion: Voices beyond the Iraq protests

Supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr inside the parliament in Baghdad on July 30 [Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters]

Baghdad, Iraq – Amir Madhlum had seen it all before.

“They are now trying to go into the Green Zone – looks familiar?” the 33-year-old texted his friends on July 27 as he saw huge crowds of protesters trying to pull down the concrete walls around the heavily fortified area in the centre of Iraq’s capital, Baghdad.

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