It is not only a week of the US combat troops pull out from Iraq that the country finds itself at the crossroads following a string of blasts across Baghdad in which some three people perished. Once again the fault line has surfaced with Iraq's Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi, a Sunni and Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, a Shia, playing the blame game.
Though it is a sad story of the Shia-Sunni divide in a country that after getting freedom from a despot has fallen back to bad old days. As long as tyrant Saddam Hussein ruled the country such incidents were never reported. Both the sects lived in harmony as next-door neighbours. But things only started spilling over after Americans stepped into the scene and toppled Hussein. Following the development the majority Shia got an opportunity to rule.
Sunnis, who ruled the country for ages, now feel marginalised.
This is a power struggle that is taking a bitter bloody shape. Bot Sunni and Shia need to realise that it is their country that suffer when such violent incidents take place. Moreover, the citizens are worst hit. The best solution would be to bring an end to the enmity and people responsible for such reprehensible acts should be brought to book so that others are discouraged from plunging themselves on the path of destruction.
Though it is a sad story of the Shia-Sunni divide in a country that after getting freedom from a despot has fallen back to bad old days. As long as tyrant Saddam Hussein ruled the country such incidents were never reported. Both the sects lived in harmony as next-door neighbours. But things only started spilling over after Americans stepped into the scene and toppled Hussein. Following the development the majority Shia got an opportunity to rule.
Sunnis, who ruled the country for ages, now feel marginalised.
This is a power struggle that is taking a bitter bloody shape. Bot Sunni and Shia need to realise that it is their country that suffer when such violent incidents take place. Moreover, the citizens are worst hit. The best solution would be to bring an end to the enmity and people responsible for such reprehensible acts should be brought to book so that others are discouraged from plunging themselves on the path of destruction.
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