sectarianism

Baghdad Neighbours Protest Over Dividing Wall

Ali Yussef
Sep 12, 2007

An Iraqi boy flashes an anti-US slogan as US soldiers watch a protest in Baghdad.... AFP Photo
Hundreds of Shiites and Sunnis marched on Wednesday in protest at the building by US troops of a tall concrete wall separating their northwest Baghdad neighbourhoods, an AFP photographer said.

The protesters complained that the wall would promote sectarianism and demanded its removal.

Residents said that US forces last week began building the two-kilometre (1.25 mile) wall along the border of the mainly Shiite al-Shuala and adjoining Sunni-majority al-Ghazaliyah neighbourhoods without consulting them.