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While Iraqi and Coalition officials continue to label Iraq’s January 30 elections as an extraordinary success, hundreds of Christians protesting outside Iraq’s Green Zone on Sunday beg to differ. While both the ChaldoAssyrian and Turkomen communities pointed to specific voting issues that prevented what one spokesman estimated to be 200,000 …

Proof that Messrs Bush and Blair have opened a veritable Pandora’s box in Iraq came with the news on 17 January that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, Basile Georges Casmoussa, aged 66, had been kidnapped by insurgents. Casmoussa (later released) comes from Iraq’s embattled Chaldo-Assyrian minority, itself an offshoot …

Baghdad, Iraq-AP, Feb. 6, 2005 4:20 PM) _ Hundreds of Iraqis shouted slogans and waved Iraqi flags Sunday outside Baghdad’s heavily guarded Green Zone to protest alleged irregularities they say prevented tens of thousands of people in Mosul from voting in last weekend’s landmark elections.    The demonstrators were mainly …

If 60% of the estimated 14 million eligible Iraqi voters showed up to the polls, that would mean that 8.4 million Iraqis voted and 30,545 votes would be needed to elect one person to the Iraqi National Assembly. With all the Expatriate votes counted and as of Friday 3.3 million …

04 February 2005 Toronto, Ontario (CARD) — Assyrians from Ontario will be holding a public march and protest on Saturday February 5, 2005. The demonstration and march is being held in support of various Iraqi minorities who were deliberately withheld from voting on the day of Iraq?s elections. The march …

AINA reported that on the day of the Iraqi elections voting boxes and supplies were not delivered to the predominantly Christian districts of Baghdeda, Bartilla, Karamlesh, Shekhan, Ain Sifne and Rimady, which have a population of 300,000 ChaldoAssyrians. On February 1st, two days after the election, 150,000 Assyrians gathered in …

AINA) — The agency in charge of the Iraqi expatriate vote officially released its results today. 265,148 ballots were cast by the expatriate Iraqis from the 14 countries hosting the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Out-of-Country Voting (OCV) Program. The results have been electronically sent to the Independent Electoral Commission …

Press Release ? For Immediate Release ? Assyrian Society of the United Kingdom Demonstration against the disenfranchisement of Christians in Iraq(London, United Kingdom) – The Assyrian Society of the United Kingdom wishes to announce a demonstration taking place this Sunday, 6th February 2005, at 3pm outside 10 Downing Street to …