Iraqi refinery workers quick to exercise new freedom of protest

摘要

Under Saddam Hussein's tyrannical Baathist rule those who raised their voices in public protest on any issue were often silenced with a bullet or by lengthy jail terms. With the yoke of that oppression lifted only a few short weeks, a group of refinery workers have surprisingly begun to realize just how powerful a small march and a vocal protest can be, especially when US and British military officials running their oil industry nvite journalists in to demonstrate their recent production accomplishments (ON 4/24).