Iraqi cleric Sadr announces disarmament initiative

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Iraqi cleric Sadr announces disarmament initiative
Ahmed Aboulenein

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on Friday for a nationwide disarmament campaign and announced his Baghdad stronghold would be first to disarm just two days after an ammunitions cache exploded there and killed 18 people.

Sadr, whose political bloc won Iraq’s parliamentary election in May, called on all armed groups to hand in their weapons to the government and declared Baghdad’s Sadr City district would be a weapons-free area later this month.

“Everyone must obey the orders and not stand in the way of this initiative. Everyone should hand over their weapons without any discussion because the blood of Iraqis is more valuable to us than anything else,” he told his supporters in a statement.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-election/iraqi-cleric-sadr-announces-disarmament-initiative-idUSKCN1J42Z4

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