By Santa Michael Baghdad, Apr 3, (VOI) – Local residents in some neighborhoods in the capital Baghdad woke up on Tuesday morning to find Iraqi flags hung on lamp posts, house roofs and traffic lights.
"The flags were hoisted by NGOs in several places in Baghdad," the media official from the Nissan 9 municipal council told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
Majid Soliman said, " NGOs put Iraqi flags in place of the colored ones indicating religious occasions, in a show of national unity and to renounce sectarianism."
On the timing of this step, Soliman said it "coincided with the circumstances Iraq is going through and the Law Enforcement security plan and also to emphasize that we're working for one Iraq that has no place for sectarian sentiments."
