According to the Iraqi Commission for Human Rights, death toll now is over 550 hundred, counting only from October 30. This suggests, the number of victims are higher since many people died before. 

Now the newly appointed prime minister Allawi – a Shiite, with studies in Lebanon and the United Kingdom behind him before entering politics in 2003, after the US invasion of Iraq – has a month to form a new executive, who will have to lead the Country to new elections, Asia News reported.

After his nomination protesters were less pleased saying that he is part of the corrupt Iraqi political elite. He is affiliated to the Sadr movement and as a result of that, their leader, Muqtada al-Sadr (a Shiite) and Iranian backed militias (collectively known as Popular Mobilization Units, PMU) are now working on to crush the movement of protesters. 

However not all of Sadr’s supporters are satisfied with their leader’s latest political change in position. AFP reported on Monday that some of them have fed up from Sadr’s ever-changing, inconsistent directives, which he tends to issue on Twitter nowadays. 

A fragmentation among Sadrists can be observed since his younger followers think al-Sadr was right to support the protesters and liked his anti-establishment position. 

Iraqi protesters asked for support and protection from the UN against Shiite militias and Sadrists and government security forces.

Protesters punctuated this appeal by hanging a U.N. flag over the Turkish restaurant in Tahrir Square that has long served as a base of operations for protests, but the Sadrists expelled them from the restaurant by force on Monday and began setting the tents on fire in protest camps.