Iraq faced the deadliest day when Sunnis murdered at least 160 people injuring 250 in a sectarian violence yesterday through well-planned car bombing and mortar attacks in Baghdad. Sadr City torn apart, which is mainly dominated by Shia populace, with five powerful car bombs that blasted off in the afternoon in crowded markets. At least a dozen gunmen with grenades and mortars raided the Shia run health ministry.

The government has imposed indefinite curfew and sealed the borders of Baghdad in the wake of more imminent attacks. Shia Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, has appealed the masses to restore peace. Shias too retaliated to avenge, escalating the violence. With the existence of homogenous Shia and Sunni districts, the violence has been common but took a horrendous shape yesterday.

This clearly indicates the dreadful shape terrorism has taken in Iraq, crippling the mindset of the common people and draining out their capability to do something towards nation building. The propagators of the war may pretend to be deaf; at least the world is listening. The current situation is not the sole outcome of a full-fledged blood soaked political propaganda initiated by the US and presented in the shape of a mayhem; Iraqis too have to take the credit for this.

Iraq is a nation at war with itself, apparently from last twenty years, and it’s high time it should shed this drama of obliviousness and fundamentalist attitude and break the bubble allowing other to give their helping hand. If not, the country is dead, which it’s already is. It’s high time UN too should pull all its troops out of Iraq, Australia has already announced to do that and Britain too will follow suit. The existing cycle of revenge between Shiites and Sunnis has crippled the political process and is dragging Iraq into a full-fledged civil war. Sunni, Shiite and Kurd communities has to come together to fight it out and break the existing deadly blend of terrorists and politicians.

Via: The Telegraph