Since 17 February 2011, military forces have fired
indiscriminately into crowds of unarmed demonstrators. There have been hundreds of arrests,
torture and disappearances of protest organizers, and empty promises made by
government leaders. Amnesty
International has intervened and word came from a reliable source that a phone
call from U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was able to pull government military
troops off the streets and away from unarmed demonstrators.
This scenario is not in Libya, Yemen, Syria, Egypt, or
Tunisia. These events have been
taking place in Kurdish north of Iraq, where people been just as active in
their nonviolent uprising against a corrupt and repressive government, although
their efforts have receive almost no coverage from major international media.