It feels like 2006 all over again. Déjà vu. A flashback. Call it whatever you like, but the way violence has made its way back to Iraq is making me extremely worried, enraged and sad.Because of the election and the unbelievable dirty politics being played behind it, innocent people are losing their lives and the sectarian war is not far from happening again. Many of the parties and candidates are playing the ‘sect’ card again, pressing on the fresh wounds of people who a few years ago were going through the horror of a bloody sectarian war.
As a result of the election wars, gunmen in Iraq have shot dead a family of eight and beheaded some of the bodies, amid a wave of pre-election violence, reported the BBC. The gunmen killed the family, who were reportedly Shiite Muslims living in a majority Sunni area just outside the capital, Baghdad, early on Monday.
On the same day, assailants burst into the home of an Iraqi campaign volunteer before dawn Monday, fatally shooting the man before they stabbed his pregnant wife and their five daughters to death, reported The Miami Herald. A sixth child, the only son, was found hanging from a ceiling fan with key arteries severed, a cousin told the paper.
Those are just two examples of the horror Iraqis have to face, something very similar to that they witnessed for years. I really hope what was built in the last year or so won’t collapse and that we don’t go back to where we started.
