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Iraq's communications cease for upcoming election

zArk | 03.01.2005 22:19 | Repression | Social Struggles

As the elections draw closer in Iraq the co-alition forces with the Interim government have decided that silence speaks a thousand words.
Up to the end of the elections all communications within Iraq have ceased, they are effectively cut-off from the world and each other. In a country fighting for basic rights there has descended a new method in the fight against ‘Insurgents’, which I call QUARANTINE IRAQ

QUARANTINE IRAQ suggests that the co-alition forces believe that democracy is at risk if Iraqis’ can talk across their country and also communicate with the world.
UK protest groups are worried that this action will inhibit Iraqis’ freedoms and that democracy is being stifled.
The Iraq Solidarity Campaign believe that this move is not a good idea and would like people of the world to support the people of Iraq;

“We would also ask that members of the Iraqi Community also write and make phone calls of protest to their nearest re-opened Iraqi Embassy aswel as to their members of the British Parliament. ”

As the events unfold it seems prudent to mention that Kassim Imhawi, a senior official in Iraq’s Communications Ministry, was gunned down on the 16th December 2004. Al-jazeera reports that officials are constantly targeted by anti-occupation and anti-government rebels and now it seems that the pro-occuption and pro-government groups are shutting down Iraq in favour of freedom and democracy.
While the interim government talks with Washington, London, the UN and localised forces, the entire civilian population is gagged and bound until they have voted-in their new leaders.

 http://www.guerrillanews.com/


This report hasn’t hit any newspaper or media source as far as I can find which tells me that even in the UK, people have had their voices silenced.
Why is this not reported in The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian or Sun? Where are our reporters? Distant voices unheard or distant voices silenced?

 http://iraqsolidaritycampaign.blogspot.com/
hussein al-alak is given big-ups for this
also Tupper, Eepi, Ins and GNN users who helped.

zArk
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Comments

Display the following 11 comments

  1. Again ? — A
  2. untrue??????? — annon in Baghdad
  3. Yawn — BBC worker
  4. link???? — paul
  5. A number of posts — KL
  6. Majid in Iraq writes: — Majid
  7. Fart — US Marine General
  8. True or untrue?? — annon in Baghdad
  9. Insurgency Crushed by our Glorious, Democratic, Rainbow Love Soldiers — Iyad Allawi
  10. At least it is now possible to vote in Iraq — God bless the UK soldiers
  11. you joker — annon