That's just from one region.
Yeah and fuck those who did that.
But I won't equate the PMU's with the systematic genocide and wholesale slaughter of Shia and Yezidis by ISIS and their allied tribes, made famous with the Speicher massacre.
More than a 100,000 Iraqis volunteered to the PMU to save their country from ISIS, some, many committed atrocities of their own in revenge, which I condemn. But don't think for a second I will forget that they liberate Mosul, Tikrit, Fallujah from ISIS, and suddenly start cheering the US to bomb my own countrymen.
Seems to be only the Iranian backed Shia militias in this case. How do you feel about the Kurds or the sunnis?
If you mean politically, Sunnis are split at the moment, see they are minority in Iraq, tho not by a large margin, they held power under Saddam over the majority Shia, enjoyed status and oppressed us. Tables turned, they got pissed, which lead to Al Qaeda in Iraq then ISIS.
Conversely losing Iraq to us Shias pissed a lot of their base in the Arab world, which is one of the reason why they galvanized in Syria, where they are a majority ruled by an Alawite (Shia subsect) minority.
But Sunni leadership in the Arab world, especially since the camp David accord and the death of Arab pan nationalism, have always failed to produce effective secular leaderships and the most popular and promising movements they could come up with were always hardliners and fundamentalists.
Morsi and the MB winning the elections in Egypt, Hamas (Iranian backed but still MB) winning the elections in Gaza, Salafists, Nusra front and Al Qaeda dominating the rebel groups in Syria while the secular ones almost faded away immediately.
Then you have the effect of years and years of religious channels that have revived Salafism and Qutbiism, Saudi version of fundamentalist Sunni Islam adopted by AlQaeda and ISIS, deepened the rift.
I don't think they're capable of producing a new Gamal Abdel Nasser anytime soon, they're also suffering an internal struggle with Sunnis loyal to the Saudi/UAE Sunni sphere, and the Turkish/Qatar Sunni sphere, which can see the result on the ground from the infighting in south Yemen and Libya.
It's a shame really, Sunnis under Abdel Nasser were heralding a secular progressive socialist Arab nation and a lot of us Shias also joined in, most of the Arab socialists in Lebanon were Shia, in Iraq a majority of Shias were communist or socialist before Saddam started his 1990's Shia massacres.
But right now what is popular is political Islam be it Sunni or Shia hence the schism.
As for the Kurds, I feel for them, but realistically speaking they won't be able to gain independance anytime soon, not unless Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Russia change their mind. I would prefer they get northern Iraq, even when ISIS invaded Iraq they never fought outside Kurdish borders anyway, even during the battle of Mosul they kept on the northern outskirts.
Aren't you the alt of that Muad'dib guy? IRGC and Khemenei have killed thousands of Iranian civilians and taken a whole nation hostage, damn right I'll celebrate any dead IRGC or their allies.
What's an alt? And you do you, look at what happened to all the Libyans, Syrians and Iraqis that America saved.