IRAQ: EX-IRAQI SOLDIERS PROTEST IN BASRA, FOUR INJURED IN CLASHES

Record ID: 646979

  • Title: IRAQ: EX-IRAQI SOLDIERS PROTEST IN BASRA, FOUR INJURED IN CLASHES
  • Date: 6th January 2004
  • Summary: (U3) BASRA IRAQ (JANUARY 6, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF THE PROTEST (2 SHOTS) 0.51 2. SLV/SV PROTESTERS CHANTING (BY OUR BLOOD, BY OUR SOULS WE SACRIFICE IRAQ) (3 SHOTS) 1.08 3. LV IRAQI POLICE OPENING GUN FIRE ON PROTESTERS 1.28 4. LV PROTESTERS 1.48 5. SLV OF BRITISH SOLDIERS AND TANKS AT THE SITE (2 SHOTS) 2.18 6. LV PROTESTERS THROWING STONES AT BRITISH SOLDIERS (2 SHOTS) 3.12 7. LV IRAQI POLICE ARRIVING 3.33 8. SLV SCUFFLES 3.41 9. LV INJURED BEING CARRIED AWAY 3.45 10. MCU PROTESTERS SHOUTING (2 SHOTS) 4.20 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 21st January 2004 12:00
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  • Location: BASRA, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA3OIBSBPP1AGXANYMJ8R854B9
  • Story Text: Ex-Iraqi soldiers protest in Basra, four injured in
    clashes.



    Iraqi police opened fire on soldiers of the former
    Iraqi army in the southern city of Basra on Tuesday
    (January 6) when the ex-soldiers staged a protest demanding
    payment of salaries, witnesses said.

    At least four people were injured, they said.

    Hundreds of former soldiers protested in front of three
    banks in Basra after being told their salaries had not been
    received.

    They said the last time they were paid was in
    September, a $150 one-off payment for three months' wages.

    The witnesses said the four injured were taken to
    hospital and British army tanks took up position near the
    banks.

    A spokesman for British forces in Iraq said he was
    aware of a demonstration in Basra but had not so far
    received any reports of shots being fired. Basra is part of
    a southern region of Iraq controlled by British forces,
    which supported U.S. troops in their invasion of Iraq last
    March.

    Iraq's U.S. governor Paul Bremer abolished the
    400,000-strong Iraqi army in May and the United States is
    recruiting and training an army it envisions as a force of
    about 40,000, along with larger numbers of police and
    border guards.


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