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Last Friday, a gunman rode up to a car and fired his weapon at a woman. Social media star Tara Fares, a former Miss Baghdad, and runner-up for Miss Iraq, was killed during the event — and the brazen assassination is just one of four that rocked Iraq in recent months.
Along with 22-year-old Fares, feminist and activist Suaad al-Ali was gunned down in the city of Basra, in southern Iraq. Before that, two beauticians, Rasha al-Hassan and Rafif al-Yasiri, were killed in mysterious circumstances, one week apart.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4509906/women-killed-iraq-witch-hunt/
Previously, a 15 year old influencer boy was killed. He was believed to be gay, which appeats to be the motive.
Obviously, all 5 murderes are linked. Iraq is a conservative state, and it's not easy being a liberated woman or being gay, bisexual, trans or queer, in the country.
Along with 22-year-old Fares, feminist and activist Suaad al-Ali was gunned down in the city of Basra, in southern Iraq. Before that, two beauticians, Rasha al-Hassan and Rafif al-Yasiri, were killed in mysterious circumstances, one week apart.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4509906/women-killed-iraq-witch-hunt/
Previously, a 15 year old influencer boy was killed. He was believed to be gay, which appeats to be the motive.
Obviously, all 5 murderes are linked. Iraq is a conservative state, and it's not easy being a liberated woman or being gay, bisexual, trans or queer, in the country.