AFP, NAJAF, Iraq: Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr on Saturday urged his followers to ramp up pro-reform rallies by setting up tents in front of Baghdad’s ‘Green Zone’ and camping out until their demands are met.
He said in a statement that the sit-in outside the fortified area where the state’s top institutions and many embassies are based would begin next Friday, on March 18.
“I make a historical call to every honest, reform-loving Iraqi to rise up and start a new phase in the peaceful popular protests,” the statement said.
Sadr urged protesters to stay there for the 10 remaining days of an ultimatum he gave the government last month.
“Get ready and organise yourselves to establish sit-in tents. This is your time to root out corruption and the corrupt,” he said.