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BAGHDAD (AFP) – Haydar Karar spends eight hours a day tidying a carpentry shop and lugging wooden beams, forced like many other Iraqi children into work by poverty and conflict. Now 13, Karar has been working with his carpenter uncle in the capital Baghdad since the age of eight, his childhood marred by the troubles […]
Haydar Karar spends eight hours a day tidying a carpentry shop and lugging wooden beams, forced like many other Iraqi children into work by poverty and conflict.Now 13, Karar has been working with his carpenter uncle in the capital Baghdad since the age of eight, his childhood marred by the troubles that have ravaged his country."I was expelled from school because of a fight," he said. "The school didn't want to take me back."
The arrest by Iraqi security forces of a top official of an Iran-backed militia on suspicion of coordinating the murder of a leading pro-democracy activist risks a major showdown between his powerful group and the government.