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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Ichy Smith who wrote (10154)8/7/2006 7:36:17 PM
From: Sawdusty  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 37133
 
Obviously for the people referenced in your link.

"Since the fall of Saddam, systematic low-level ethnic cleansing has driven thousands of Assyrian Christians from their homes. Our churches have been firebombed and our women forced to wear the hijab. In northern Iraq much of this intimidation has come from the Kurdish militias. It reached a climax on election day, when ballot boxes were prevented from reaching between 200,000 and 400,000 people. On the Nineveh Plains, the last area in Iraq where our people live in sizeable numbers, six Assyrian towns, Baghdeda, Bartilla, Karemlesh, Shekhan, Ain Sifne and Bahzan w ere prevented from going to the polls."

Great democracy Bush installed...eh?