Press Release 6.12.2005
KDP stops Assyrian General Conference from promoting slate 800 in northern Iraq.
Throughout the election campaign for different slates that was started by
political entities for the coming election in Iraq, a group of supporters and
members of the Assyrian General Conference slate (800), started posting and
hanging banners in the majority of Assyrian villages in Dohuk (Nohadra)
Province. While one of the groups of the (Assyrian General Conference), were
posting the election posters and hanging banners in t! he Assyrian county of Mangesh
on the morning of Monday the
5th December, 2005, they were stopped by armed members of the (KDP).
The same armed militia destroyed all the posters that were on the
walls,
confiscated 3000 posters, 25 banners and ordered the group to leave
Mangesh.
One of the (Assyrian General Conference), unarmed member asked why you
are
doing this? He was told “we do what we want, and you leave and don’t
come back
again”. (The Assyrian General Conference), has filed an official
complaint
about this incident with the (Independent Electoral Commission of
Iraq), Duhok
branch. The AGC was told that they will forward the complaint to the
main
office in Baghdad and wait for their reply.
Our question to the election board is, would we have enough time to promote our
slate after getting your response that we have started in a very transparent
way especially in the Assyrian county of Mangesh? We would like to tell our
Assyrian patriotic people in Iraq and the Diaspora, that such
encounters and intimidations will not discourage us to continue and accomplish
the resolutions of (Assyrian General Conference), that was declared last August
on Assyrian Martyrs day. The
(Assyria General Conference), slate (800), will continue to be the true voice
for our indigenous Assyrian people.
Assyrian General Conference
Media bureau Baghdad, 6th December. 2005
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