Motahedoun: Our withdrawal from parliament is temporarily

Motahedoun: Our withdrawal from parliament is temporarily
2013-12-31T10:55:11+00:00

awaiting for what will happen in the coming days .

MPs of Motahedoun coalition and the National Dialogue Front have announced the submission of their resignations to the Parliament Council in protest against the recent developments in Anbar, in a sign of increasing political and security tensions in the country.

The MP of Motahedoun coalition , Entesar al-Jubouri told “Shafaq News " , that "We have submitted our resignation to the parliament in protest at the lack of respect to the immunity of an MP by the government and the Iraqi army assault on the Iraqi people and its violation to the Constitution."

Recent tensions erupted after security forces arrested Sunni MP , Ahmed al-Alwani , killed his brother and several of his bodyguards last Saturday.

The MPs resignation came on the back ground of Anbar events after the Iraqi security forces ended the existing sit-in for nearly a year .

Iraqi authorities say that they have broke up the sit-ins in Anbar because it has become a haven for al-Qaeda militants .

Clashes erupted between gunmen and security forces in Ramadi and Fallujah, while Sunni clerics called for county residents to defend themselves and cut roads in front of the army’s supply.

10 civilians were killed and 20 others were injured, according to medical sources.

The sit-in began about a year ago in a protest that has been considered by protestors as marginalizing of Sunnis by the government of Prime Minister , Nuri al-Maliki .

Violence has intensified this year after al Qaeda-linked insurgents targeted the government and all they see support of it, which raised concerns of renewed sectarian conflict that had killed tens of thousands in 2006 and 2007.

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