EXECUTIONS IN IRAQ
Syrians Protest
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DAMASCUS, Sept. 22.
More than 40,000 Syrians demonstrated through Damascus streets today in a peaceful but vehement protest against Sunday’s “murderous” execution of 13 Iraqi Army officers in Bagdad. Traffic in the capital reached a near standstill as the demonstrators staged symbolic funerals for the 13 Iraqi soldiers shot for their part in the abortive revolt at Mosul, northern Iraq, last March. Thirteen coffins were borne on the shoulders of the crowd, which later proceeded to the Shuhada (Martyrs) Cemetery for prayer.
The crowds denounced the “Red massacre of Iraqi nationalists elements” by Iraq’s Prime Minister (Major-General Abdul Karim Kassem). They shouted slogans such as “woe unto the criminal Kassem” and “history’s curse upon you—Bagdad’s hangman.”
Earlier, a “popular conference” passed resolutions appealing to Arab Governments and the United Nations Committee on Human Rights to intervene and prevent further Iraqi “massacres.”
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29008, 24 September 1959, Page 7
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