Afghan Elections Fraudulent - Key Evidence Hushed Up in UN and in UK
Craig Murray | 10.10.2009 19:32 | Terror War | World
So determined are the British mainstream media, and all three main English political parties, to maintain patriotic support for the War in Afghanistan, that there has been almost no reporting here of conclusive evidence that the Afghan elections were entirely fraudulent.
There are huge discrepancies between the turnout as monitored by UN observers, and as declared by the Afghan "Independent" Electoral Commission. For example:
"In Helmand province in the south, where Taliban fighters remain very active, for example, the U.N. estimated that just 38,000 votes were cast while Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission reported 122,376 votes for the top three candidates, including 112,873 for Karzai. In neighboring Kandahar, the U.N. estimated turnout at below 100,000 voters — compared to the commission's official count of 242,782 votes, 221,436 of them for Karzai."
The interesting thing is that the UN itself has been complicit in covering this up, and the true figures have only been released by a whistleblower, Peter Galbraith, who has naturally been sacked. His motives are immaterial - it was wrong of the UN to suppress this information. For sheer bloody minded cynicism, the response from Edmond Mulet, assistant UN secretary general, takes the biscuit. He stated that the UN was mandated to support the Afghan election, not to monitor it.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ihcxyvLQTtUCreNe2jbrDczmO9aQD9B6JLT81
A smoother but still more cynical confirmation that the UN is going along with fraud came from the Head of the UN's Afghan mission, Kai Eide, who stated that:
"If one is serious about state-building in Afghanistan, one must allow these nascent institutions to work and to grow. This means allowing them to make their own mistakes."
This resonates strongly with me because it mirrors exactly the arguments I had with UN officials in Uzbekistan who refused to acknowledge the appalling human rights abuses in the country. In particular, UNICEF point blank would not report the massive use of forced labour of young children in the cotton fields, preferring instead to quote reports from Uzbek government institutions denying this.
Sadly, the majority of international diplomats, Eide and Mulet included, are high living careerists, fleas riding on the back of power, with no principles and with no empathy for the plight of people whose lifestyle does not include an unlimited supply of free champagne.
"In Helmand province in the south, where Taliban fighters remain very active, for example, the U.N. estimated that just 38,000 votes were cast while Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission reported 122,376 votes for the top three candidates, including 112,873 for Karzai. In neighboring Kandahar, the U.N. estimated turnout at below 100,000 voters — compared to the commission's official count of 242,782 votes, 221,436 of them for Karzai."
The interesting thing is that the UN itself has been complicit in covering this up, and the true figures have only been released by a whistleblower, Peter Galbraith, who has naturally been sacked. His motives are immaterial - it was wrong of the UN to suppress this information. For sheer bloody minded cynicism, the response from Edmond Mulet, assistant UN secretary general, takes the biscuit. He stated that the UN was mandated to support the Afghan election, not to monitor it.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ihcxyvLQTtUCreNe2jbrDczmO9aQD9B6JLT81 A smoother but still more cynical confirmation that the UN is going along with fraud came from the Head of the UN's Afghan mission, Kai Eide, who stated that:
"If one is serious about state-building in Afghanistan, one must allow these nascent institutions to work and to grow. This means allowing them to make their own mistakes."
This resonates strongly with me because it mirrors exactly the arguments I had with UN officials in Uzbekistan who refused to acknowledge the appalling human rights abuses in the country. In particular, UNICEF point blank would not report the massive use of forced labour of young children in the cotton fields, preferring instead to quote reports from Uzbek government institutions denying this.
Sadly, the majority of international diplomats, Eide and Mulet included, are high living careerists, fleas riding on the back of power, with no principles and with no empathy for the plight of people whose lifestyle does not include an unlimited supply of free champagne.
Craig Murray
Homepage:
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2009/10/afghan_election.html
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RAWA - No Need to Complain
13.10.2009 13:56
Considering what RAWA has stated in the past and now, we want the US and you, Mr. Kai Eide to simply leave us in our own state because the US and it allies and thus UN consider supporting the Jehadi criminals as their sacred duty and continue pumping more agents of CIA, young and old, to remain dominant in Afghanistan. US want a reason to ensure their long presence and have no plans of uprooting its own creations, that is, Al-Qaeda and Taliban. The former, while spitting on the true meaning of democracy, is undertaking the disgusting projection of a government containing all the bands of Islamic fundamentalists, including Hezb-e-Islami for whose acid-attacker leader Gulbuddin, they had placed a prize and the Quislings of Khalq and Parcham, which is the most unforgivable treachery of Obama against our country. Since 2001, US and NATO have turned Afghanistan into their testing ground for weapons and their killings of our innocent and defenseless people tally ten times than that of the barbaric Taliban and later deny it with tormenting indifference or justify them. For Obama and his administration, governments, parties and people are only worthy if they abide by his orders and interests and is of the least importance if they are anti-democratic, corrupt, criminal and anti-people. Therefore it is not astounding when US honorably freed the murderer like Ghairat Baheer and today, they are engaging in friendly talks with Gulbuddin party terrorists like Humayun Jareer and Daood Abidi for reconciling with Gulbuddin and further negotiations with these more blood-thirsty Draculas than Fahim.
You might say that if US leaves, the Taliban terrorists may take power. We request you, please don’t pity on us. If US would have been an enemy of Taliban and their ideas they would drive out all Talib ideologues from US and their educational centers and place them right with Noriega. People of Afghanistan, just like other nations, want freedom, democracy, justice and welfare. Majority of our people connect the Taliban with the Middle Age and are not ready, at any cost, to accept their rule. Taliban are an inerasable and shameful scar on humanity and have caused tremendous ignominy to our people. It was US’s wish to replace the rascals of Northern Alliance with them through Pakistan.
Danny
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http://www.rawa.org/rawa/2009/05/13/the-warlord-mafia-regime-of-karzai-would-not-be-uncontaminated-with-criminal-fahim-flushed-down-the-toilet.html