Leader of the state law is considered the Green Zone "ominous" and calls for its abolition


20/3/2016, 10:41


BAGHDAD / Sky Press:
Called on the leadership of the coalition of state law, the former national security adviser Muwaffaq al-Rubaie, Sunday, the government to abolish the Green Zone, and the distribution of government institutions and the role occupied by housing officials on areas of Baghdad.

Rubaie said in a statement received "Sky Press," that "it is wrong to the Green Zone, becoming a symbol of the prestige of the state and everyone respected", calling for "the abolition of the Green Zone and the distribution of government institutions that have operated and the role of officials of housing, which are housed in the areas of Baghdad to protect the capital from any a possible breach. "

He added that "lurking in the Green Zone government institutions and the role of officials already in the country if it was distributed to the different areas of Baghdad, we will find that these institutions and the role of officials will provide security protection to those areas, which will provide us with safer double to Baghdad, so the government cancel this ill-fated region have been invited to canceled by more than ten years. "

He noted that "the idea of ​​the Green Zone (safe) came against the rest of the areas of Iraq that the Americans considered unsafe and red for them," adding that "it is wrong to the Green Zone, becoming a symbol of the prestige of the state and everyone respected."

The security forces opened, Sinak bridges Republic and the Alawi district in central Baghdad in front of the protesters, while thousands of them arrived at the gate of the Green Zone.

Thousands of demonstrators had on Friday (18 March 2016), erected tents sit-in called for by the cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, after performing Friday prayers in front of the gates of the Green Zone in central Baghdad, calling for reform and achieve comprehensive change in government.

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