Hashd supporters have manipulated electoral law to keep out independents. Free speech is being curbed and social-media influencers have been jailed for immorality
In 2014 Iraq’s government of the day launched the Hashd, or people’s mobilisation force, to counter Islamic State , a movement of Sunni jihadists who had conquered Mosul, the country’s main northern city, and were sweeping menacingly south towards Baghdad. But afterwas defeated and a modicum of calm returned, the Hashd found a new role.
Many Iraqis are glad of the stability that comes when one side finally wins a civil war. Iraq’s Sunni Muslim minority seems to have abandoned the struggle for the supremacy it once enjoyed. Iraq’s Kurds have edged back from their bid for independence. And the Hashd’s prime opponent among Shias,, a hot-headed cleric who appeals to Iraq’s poor, has been hobbled.
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