PRI reports on the recent terror attacks on Baghad and the lack of international coverage and outrage. As PRI recounts, “[On July 4th], Baghdad suffered Iraq’s worst terror attack since the US-led invasion in 2003. More than 300 people were killed when a van exploded in a crowded commercial area of the city, during Ramadan. But it didn’t stop there. Four days later, a suicide bomber killed at least 40 people at a Shia shrine near Baghdad. Then on Tuesday, at least 12 people were killed in a suicide car bombing at a fruit and vegetable market in the capital. And on Wednesday, another suicide car bombing, also in Baghdad, killed at least 10 people at a police checkpoint.”
Baghdad journalist Sahar Issa says Iraqis “are the best people who can feel for the victims” of terrorist attacks such as Nice, but wonders if Western countries can return the empathy when it has to do with the Middle East. The journalist worries that people in the West may have come to believe that “volatility is a characteristic of the Middle East, whereas we are just people. We want to live in peace.”
