Sectarian Violence in Iraq and the New War in the Middle East

Carlos Varea. Translated into English for Axis of Logic by Agatha Haun and revised by James Hollander, Tlaxcala

The sectarian violence in Iraq is an indisputable fact. Not quite so indisputable is the idea that this violence is the expression of a civil or religious confrontation between communities that have coexisted and mixed for centuries. It is not a war pitting Sunni against Shiite, or Arab against Kurd, but is rather a struggle against sectarian, regressive tendencies empowered by the occupiers which seek the disappearance of Iraq. First of all, the objective of the sectarian violence in Iraq is the eradication of the anti-occupation camp and secular sectors of society, the physical elimination of intellectuals and professionals, the loss of civil rights and women's rights and the expulsion of minority communities that are, in any case, uninvolved in the spiral of violence presently occurring. The sectarian violence in Iraq has the ultimate objective of dismantling the Iraqi state and breaking up Iraqi society as a step towards the territorial partitioning of the country and the oligarchic control of its energy resources...

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