The police opened fire Sunday on stone-throwing crowds protesting government corruption in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region, and seven people were struck by gunfire, according to a doctor here. Another 28 were injured by rocks or hospitalized with breathing problems caused by tear gas, the doctor said.
It was the latest protest to turn violent in Sulaimaniya, 160 miles northeast of Baghdad in the normally peaceful Kurdish region, where demonstrations calling for political and economic reforms have been held nearly every day during the last several months.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/18/world/middleeast/18iraq.html?_r=1
Yes, police opened fire on stone-throwing crowds protesting government corruption, seven people were struck by gunfire, and another 28 were injured by rocks or hospitalized with breathing problems caused by tear gas "in the normally peaceful Kurdish region". Imagine what happens daily in the unsafe violent regions.
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