It seems that the clash, which occurred last Sunday, between security forces and elements of the “popular crowd”, on the way to revealing extensive acquisitions on agricultural lands in Baghdad and its outskirts by influential factions and groups, at the expense of citizens who own or rent these lands from the state.
Despite the deaths of two people, one civilian and the other military and the injury of others, what appeared to have appeared in the engagement accident so far is the “mountain summit” of grievances that a statement issued on Tuesday for the Prime Minister.
The statement emphasized that Prime Minister Mohamed Shi’a Al -Sudani stressed “the follow -up of all the repercussions of the sinful attack on one of the agricultural circles on the Karkh side.”
According to the government’s statement, and after the arrest of the director of the previous session transplantation, which used armed elements, his violations and corruption, and in light of the many complaints received, “Al -Sudani ordered the formation of an investigation committee headed by the deputy head of the Financial Supervision Bureau, the membership of representatives of the Federal Integrity Commission, the Prime Minister’s Office, for the purpose of scrutinizing and considering complaints and grievances that the farmers and farmers were exposed to in Baghdad”.
The committee is supposed to “raise the results to the Prime Minister’s office, to take legal measures against any case of transgression or seizing agricultural lands for farmers and farmers without right.”
Complex
Local reports had quoted officials that the armed clash between the crowd and the security forces removes the cover from “a complex network of accounts in which the interests of armed factions overlap with local accounts related to agricultural lands in the Al -Dura area, south of the capital, through which the (around the Hollow Road) planned within strategic infrastructure projects.”
These interests do not stop at the borders of some areas in Baghdad, and exceed them to include the agricultural areas in the Baghdad belt and inside, where the influential groups controlled a wide procedure from them and turned them into residential lands, villas and entertainment resorts.
Often the areas of the Baghdad belt, which are inhabited by a Sunni majority, and the endeavor to control them from armed groups with a political struggle between influential parties in Baghdad, “by planting a network of loyalists to a party or faction and its housing in this belt,” according to security persons related to these areas.
Conflict conflict
Kazem Al -Shammari, a deputy representing the town of Al -Madaen, one of the southern Baghdad belt areas, stressed that “part of the conflict between the influential groups and most of them are linked to armed factions aimed at seizing the largest area of land in the Baghdadi belt.”
Al -Shammari said in a television interview, that “there are introductions that are taking place to displace the people of Al -Madaen, south of Baghdad, by placing the farmer between several sects that made it easier to abandon the land in order to greet the people of his house.”
He emphasized that the influential groups “choosing 80 farmers between withdrawing their lands or facing unforgiving groups (referring to the armed factions), as this is done through (Taiwat) cars armed with weapons that threaten the farmers to lift their hand from their lands” (the name of the Tahoe is called the American -made wheels (GMC) the four -wheel drive that is used in abundance Parliament.
Al -Shammari added: «There are also many official parties involved with gangs to seize the lands of Nahrawan (south of Baghdad), where there is an official circle in the cities that sponsor gangs that seize the lands, and I will come in front of a government agency to reveal the official circle involved with the gangs.
Al -Shammari expressed his fear that “the scenario of Al -Baithah in Al -Madaen is repeated, by converting it into villas, farms, and night clubs,” in a sign of converting large areas of “Al -Baithah” areas southwest of Baghdad into villas and chalets.
