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Posted by Maggie (Guest) - Tuesday, October 4 2005, 21:19:24 (CEST)
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"It amazes me how the United States government turns a blind eye to such unfairness when it claims to champion democracy.

Fred Aprim
Hayward, California"

Now who's NAIVE, Fred?

You? or my article "Pride and Prejudice"?

Things change, Fred, but it's the DIRECTION of that change that's important!
Maggie

Fred Aprim wrote:

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Re: My Response to the Editor

Posted By: Fred Aprim (5.san-jose-14rh15rt.ca.dial-access.att.net)
Date: Wednesday, 28 September 2005, at 6:32 p.m.

In Response To: KDP Fraud (Albert Michael)

Dear Editor,

I read with great interest your piece "POLITICS-IRAQ: Voting Shenanigans Cloud Key Province" dated September 28, 2005.

Thank you for exposing the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) and its fraud actions during the January 2005 Iraqi national elections under the watchful eyes of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) and the American government. Assyrian Christians, also known as ChaldoAssyrians in the Iraqi Transitional Administrative Law (TAL), around the world have been screaming foul play for many months. The Assyrians (including Chaldeans and Suryanis)
were expected to win five to ten seats in the Iraqi elections if the process was fair. Similar unfair treatment was experienced by the Shabaks, Yezidis, and Turkomans. Not only that the ChaldoAssyrians were prevented from voting in the Nineveh Plain where they are concentrated, unfairness was practiced in Out-Of-Country voting process organized by the International Organization of Migration (IOM) as well.

The placing of the voting stations in the United States was anything but fair. A polling station was set up in Nashville where only a total of 2000 to 3000 Kurds reside. Meanwhile, the whole regions of San Francisco/San Jose, Modesto/Turlock/Ceres/Manteca in Central Valley, and San Diego of California where more that 40,000 ChaldoAssyrians reside were not provided with any polling stations. Assyrians in northern California had to travel twice to Los Angeles once on January 23 to register and then a week later on January 30 to vote. Many Assyrians, especially the elderly, could not afford doing that.

It amazes me how the United States government turns a blind eye to such unfairness when it claims to champion democracy.

Fred Aprim
Hayward, California

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