Call to stop arrests, demonstrators

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Tens of demonstrators in Tahrir square, mid Baghdad , denounced governmental random arrests, calling for national reconciliation. IraqiNews.com correspondent at the square said that tens of demonstratorsdenounced the arrests made by the security forces against ex-Baath Party members and military officers. The demonstrators described the arrests as “random” and called for “toppling the government”, shouting anti-government slogans. The charged Premier Nouri al-Maliki for “personal follow-up of these arrests”. A number of demonstrators told IraqiNews.com that national reconciliation necessitates forgetting the past, not repeating the previous policies. Another demonstrator demanded that the law should judge the accusations, not political organs. 53