Communiqué 2

Regarding the Demonstrations of Kirkuk

Following up on our first communiqué, thousands of angry people in Kirkuk, have demonstrated because of their miserable living conditions, caused by the obscene costs of living and lack of electrical power and fuel as well as their agony caused by the absence of necessary and basic services.

The demonstration started from Raheem-awa market place after the people saw the presence of pools of heavy soiled water coming from the open sewage flooding into the market, then the demonstration marched to the main road leading to Irbil. The demonstration started at 11 a.m. and continued until night fall. The demonstrators attacked two gas stations and the Administration of the Projects of Petroleum Product’s building located at Ikhwaan circle and set them in fire.

After the police and the US forces had intervened and started to shoot at the demonstrators, the people attacked back by storming a police station with stones and simple means. The US and police troops’ shootings on the demonstrators had resulted in the killing of 2 demonstrators, one of whom is Sabah Mohammed Ali, and wounding others by the anti-demonstration forces.

We in the Left Worker-communist Party of Iraq accede to and support the mass demonstrations of people who are resentful towards their tragic situation and defend their rights. We strongly condemn the repressive acts committed by the anti-demonstration puppet government and the US troops.

The Left Worker-communist Party of Iraq – LWPI

January 1, 2006