UN Warns Iraq At 'Crossroads,' Calls For Calm

[Purveyor]

Source: Agence France-Presse

AFP - United Nations envoy Martin Kobler warned on Friday that Iraq is at a "crossroads," calling for restraint as a wave of violence killed more than 190 people in four days.

"I call on the conscience of all religious and political leaders not to let anger win over peace, and to use their wisdom, because the country is at a crossroads," Kobler said in a statement.

Kobler spoke a day after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki warned that the country was in danger of returning to "sectarian civil war."

Maliki, from Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority, called on people "to take the initiative, and not be silent about those who want to take the country back to sectarian civil war."

Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20130426-un-warns-iraq-crossroads-calls-calm

[heaven05]

1. hmmmm

would this had happened if we hadn't brought (d)emocracy to the Iraqi people? Freedom to slaughter each other. My, ain't freedom grand.