Iraq: Decades after the Gulf War, Iraq’s Youth View Oil as a Curse

Feb 26, 2021 | Sofia Barbarani, Al Jazeera
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Like most of the young people who joined Iraq’s countrywide demonstrations in 2019, musician Sally Mars took to the streets to demand that the government tackle unemployment, improve basic services and end corruption. The call to specifically end corruption in Iraq’s oil industry quickly became one of the biggest battle cries among demonstrators.