Iraqi Students Protest Attacks by Religious Extremists By Joel Wendland
Students at Basrah and Shatt Al-Arab Universities struck in mid-March in protest of religious extremist violence aimed at women students and others who support equal gender relations and secular lifestyles. .
Picket lines on campuses and large demonstrations of thousands of students and members of civil society organizations held outside the Basrah government offices lasted for three days to protest the violence.
A Kuwaiti newspaper reported that students affiliated with the Engineering College at Basrah University were assaulted during a picnic at a local park. Hooded men attacked male and female students with rubber cables, guns, and clubs. One Armenian woman student lost an eye due to a beating with a club. She was beaten and stripped. Another male student, attempting to come to her aid, was shot and killed.
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