Biased Elections in Iraq’s Pseudo-Kurdish Province Denounced by Yazidis and Christian Aramaeans

As I specified in a previous article published yesterday under the title ‘North Iraqi Pseudo-Kurdish Tyranny: Epicenter of Middle East’s Worst Chaos’
(http://www.buzzle.com/articles/north-iraqi-pseudo-kurdish-tyranny-epicenter-of-middle-east-worst-chaos.html), the recently held provincial elections in Iraq were a parody - at least in the northern provinces.

Having already published the first part of a report earlier posted in the Turkmen portal of the SOITM Foundation, I republish here the report’s second part. The pseudo-Kurdish terrorists Talabani and Brazani, who have been supported for decades by the secret services of England, France and the US, devised many trickeries in order to put all sorts of hindrances in the way of the Northern Iraqi populations and prevent them from voting. It is very meaningful that only 51% of the local population participated in the de facto invalid elections.

In their outright majority, the various oppressed and tyrannized nations of Northern Iraq unreservedly and wholeheartedly reject the tyrannical groups of the Barzani and Talabani, and absolutely refute the pseudo-theory of a Kurdish Nation which does not represent them.

In this part of the report, the details given about the unfair and biased elections concern the Christian Aramaeans of Iraq, who have been mercilessly persecuted by the British colonials, and the Yazidis, a separate ethno-eligious group that strives for National independence, while being misrepresented by the world’s Freemasonic mass media as supposedly ‘Kurdish’. In a forthcoming article, I will complete the republication of the comprehensive Report of the SOITM Foundation.

Chaldo-Assyrian Regions

As it is well known that the Kurdish political parties which benefit from the unbalanced political, administrative and economical condition between the Kurds and other Iraqi communities in the north of Iraq has recruited several groups from different non-Kurdish communities in return for promotion and wealth.

The Chaldo-Assyrian regions suffered from the same two major obstacles which hindered thousands of the voters could not cast ballots. The absence voter lists and the large distance between the voter houses and election centers in the presence of curfew for vehicles. Being the Chaldo-Assyrian regions in Nineveh plain dominated by Kurdish militant Peshmergas and security services, it is highly possible that these obstacles in front of the voters introduced deliberately. The UNPO observer estimates the absent ballots by thousands. The displaced Assyrians are accounted by tens of thousands who suffered also like Turkmen of Telafer from not finding their names in the voter lists. According to the only international observer of UNPO, the displaced people who deprived of voting in only Nineveh plain are accounted to 3500 families. The Chaldo-Assyrian Council representative in Brussels, who thinks that important election frauds took place inside election centers.

In addition to the election frauds, the collaborator Chaldo-Assyrian groups appeared to severely violate the election processes in favor of the pro-Kurdish Assyrian list. This can be concluded from the events during campaigns, voting processes and in the results of the elections in different regions.

The Chaldo-Assyrian candidates and independent election observers enumerates the major election frauds in Nineveh Plain as follows:1

- The pro-Kurdish Chaldo-Assyrian Sarkis Agajan, minister of finance in the Kurdish government, has about 2,600 militants in the Nineveh province who were paid by Agajan. These militants played an important role in directing the Chaldo-Assyrian voters to cast for the Ishtar list by imidation and promising for cash pay or jobs.

- The Christian religious man Luwis Kassap used the Churches in Kara Kuş to campaign for the pro-Kurdish list. During Sunday religious ceremonies he asked the congregation to vote for a pro-Kurdish Ishtar list saying that it is the list of the Churches. Furthermore, Kassap waged wide slander campaigns against the candidates of the Rafidian list.

- Getting large sums of money from Kurdish parties, the pro-Kurdish religious groups organized large numbers of activities during the period of election campaigning.

- To frighten the voters and the Chaldo-Assyrian parties, which were not working with the Kurdish parties, an attempt to kill the director of election campaigns of the Rafidain List was foiled while others were exposed to physical insults.

- Christian students were threatened with the stoppage of the buses which were allocated to bring them to schools and universities, if they do not vote for a pro-Kurdish list.

- During the curfew which was applied to the Nineveh Province, cars from the Churches and the pro-Kurdish Christian groups were used freely to transfer specific voters to and from the election centers particularly from the villages.

- The families in the three hundred flats of the churches, which were built by the Kurdish Regional Governments funds, were inhumanly threatened to vote for pro-Kurdish Chaldo-Assyrian list.

Other reports stated that:

- The voters were strongly pressed in the election centers to vote for pro-Kurdish Assyrian list.

- Names were omitted from the voter lists in the election centers.

- In many cases, it was founded that people were given cash money and asked to swear to vote for specific lists.

- As in other areas, the high turnout in the Chaldo-Assyrian regions under Kurdish militia control, is most probably due to the filling of unused ballots by the staff of the election centers in favor of Kurdish or pro-Kurdish lists. The abnormally high votes for those lists sometimes reached to 90%, and appear to support this possibility.

- In some centers in Duhok, where large numbers of displaced Chaldo-Assyrian voted, the center’s staffs were almost all Kurdish and claimed that the ballots were ended.

- The pro-Kurdish Ishtar slate has been accused by Chaldo-Assyrian in the Nineveh province of using the threat of loss of aid and security to force Chaldo-Assyrian to vote for it.

Yazidis Regions

The election observers of the Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress, which is headed by Yazidi member of the Iraqi Parliament Amin Farhan, registered large numbers of election fraud in the Yazidi regions: Shaykhan, Sinjar, Tilkeif districts and al-Kus, Baashiqa, al-Qayrawan and al-Qahtaniya sub-districts.

Since the occupation, the Yazidi community has been suppressed by the Kurdish militias. These militias spread speculations saying that those who will not vote for the KDP will be punished either by arrest, be it in Yazidi regions, or on the roads out of the Yazidi regions, or with the cessation of their ration cards. The head branch 17 of KAP, Sarbast and Kurdish soldiers from the Iraqi Third Military corps participated in these intimidations. A CD Video film proving these claims were given to the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq.

The replacement of the Kurdish Peshmergas by the Iraqi soldiers could not be completed in Yazidi regions. The domination of the election centers in Yazidi regions by Kurdish staff and the guarding of election centers by Kurdish Peshmergas almost removed the legal environment for fair elections. The pressure and intimidation to vote for the Kurdish list by Peshmerga militants were one of several major election frauds:

- In the al-Shamal sub-district almost all the staffs of the election centers were Kurdish teachers appointed by Kurdish parties from the Duhok governorate. All are also well known members of Kurdish parties. These centers were guarded by militias from Kurdish parties.

- All the observers from the Yazidi parties who are opponents to the Kurdish parties were not allowed to enter the election centers in the districts of Shaykhan, Tilkef, al-Kush and sub-districts of al-Faruk and al-Tamim. For example, in Lalish election center, the observer from the Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress Yousif Khadida Malko was not allowed to enter the center by Ali Huseyin, a member of the KDP, and the staff in the election center.

- All the ballots which were not used were completed by Kurdish staff after the close of voting and, therefore, the turnout in some centers was abnormally high.

- Campaigns for Kurdish parties and Kurdish candidates were continued in front of the election centers.

- The vehicle curfew was applied by Kurdish Peshmerga selectively against the groups who were opponents of the Kurdish parties.

- The election centers were closed at 7:00pm in several regions.

- At 5:00 pm Kurdish militias entered houses and forced people to go to election centers and vote for the Kurdish list.

- The ballots of thousands of illiterates were filled by the directors of election centers in support of the Kurdish list.

- At 3:30 pm on election day, the first candidate from the Kurdish list, Kasim Salih Huseyin entered the election center in the Third Qurtuba al-Mukhtalata (No. 321018) and visited all the election stations before meeting secretly with the director of the center, Kasim Osman, for twenty minutes. He remained in the center for one hour.

The following election frauds were registered in the election center in the village of Hardan in the sub-district al-Shamal located in the district Sinjar:

a. At 10:10am, the director of the al-Shamal sub-district visited the center with his guards and after voting he talked with the director of the center about the KDP voters.

b. The number of staff was 38 of whom 34 were from Kurdish parties.

There was additional election fraud by Kurdish militias in the schools of Al-Andalus compound in the al-Shamal sub-district:

a. At 10:00 am, the director of al-Shamal sub-district, Khidr Rashsho, visited two centers with his guards and talked to the Kurdish staff in favor of voters for Kurdish parties.

b. At 2:00 pm, the commander of the Kurdish militia group with his armed guards entered the election center to show Kurdish hegemony and frighten the voters.

c. At 2:00pm deputy of the head of the Branch 17 of KDP of Sinjar (Khalid) entered another election center with KDP party authority, Ilyas Haji Barakat, and visited all the voting stations and asked for information about the voters of Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress which is an opponent to the Kurdish parties.

The head of the city council in district al-Baaj, Jasim Muhammed Huseyin, is from Rambusi region and a member of the KDP who was appointed as a member of staff in the Rambusi election center. He was accompanied by an armed guard on his visit and he toured continuously in the stations of the two election centers. He interfered directly with voting processes and kicked an observer called Fadhil Khayri Biso.

The director of the al-Kahtaniya election center, Sido Khashsho Nafkhosh, who is also a member of the KDP staffer within the IHEC, and head of the city council in the sub-districts of al-Kahtaniya toured the election centers in the sub-district al-Kahtaniya, al-Jazeera, al-Adnaniya and al-Rambusi and asked the staffs to encourage voting for the KDP.

References:

1. The report of al-Rafidain list which is signed by Sami Habib Astipho, the candidate of the list, Imad Behnam Robil, the co-coordinator of the list, Ninos Gorgis Odisho, the authorized staff of the list presented to the IHEC.

Note
Picture: An American map of Al Qaeda points presence in Iraq; these are correct and precise indications of the ‘Kurdish’ terrorists’ strongholds and their outlets in Central Iraq. The Geography of Terrorism in Iraq gets them unmasked. From:
http://www.longwarjournal.org/maps/AQIraq-map-Dec2007.jpg