Newsline 8 March 2010: International observers are positive about Iraq's election outcome. Human Rights Watch says it's time to catch those responsible for more sectarian killings in Nigeria, and Dutch pro-choice activists prepare to reignite the great abortion debate.
Maliki leads Iraqi vote
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is emerging as the front-runner as the votes from yesterday's parliamentary elections are counted. The poll is being hailed as a success even though it was marred by a number of violent attacks. Former Dutch politician Ad Melkert is the UN's special envoy to Iraq and he too is positive about the election.
Some political rivals of Prime Minister Maliki have criticised the conduct of the elections, though foreign observers say it appears to have gone well. According to Mr Melkert, everything has been done - and will be done - to ensure a fair outcome.
Massacres in Nigeria kill hundreds
Violent sectarian clashes in the town of Jos at the weekend left an estimated 500 people dead. Machete-wielding gangs massacred mainly women and children in nearby Christian villages, which sit on the border between Nigeria's mainly Muslim north and Christian south. The government says it has arrested 95 people, but Human Rights Watch's Corinne Dunne says there must be more focus on punishing those responsible.
Icelanders reject repayment plan
98 percent of the Icelanders who took part in Saturday's vote said 'no' to a deal with the Netherlands and Britain to pay back four billion euros lost by savers when the Icesave bank collapsed in 2008. The outcome wasn't a surprise, says Europe editor Perro de Jong, but the future is now anybody's guess.
Abortion debate reignites in the Netherlands
Today is International Women's Day, and all over the world people are using the opportunity to highlight inequality between the sexes. In the Netherlands one topic that's high on the agenda is abortion. It's 40 years since Dutch women took to the streets and helped bring about liberal abortion policies, but Geert Wilder's popular right-wing Freedom party wants to restrict abortion to a minority of cases. Former activist Myra ter Meulen says she'll go back to the streets if he gets his way.

















Sektarisme is om te winnen in de (verkiezing) Irak en in eerdere tijden. Omdat de kieslijsten zijn de lijsten van angst en vrees van de andere, ongeacht de verschillen in denominatie. Valriasat drie zijn de premier en president van de republiek en het voorzitterschap van het parlement zijn gereserveerd en blijven, maar (monopolie) voor de drie grote gemeenschappen van sjiieten, Koerden en soennieten en sites van de ministeries en gevoelige posities in de staat, die zal worden verdeeld volgens sektarische partijen en sekten, krijgsheren en milities leiders, ondanks de bloedige geschiedenis van velen van hen en financiële corruptie en administratieve bekend dat tegen de wet en op de neus (de Commissie Integriteit), met name op de neus tegen Iraakse burgers en zijn onderhevig aan quota sektarische minister Arun en (verdeeld) door (compatibiliteit) vereist door de gemeentelijke en de hogere belang van de gemeenschap en de oudsten en prinsen! . Hakma en helaas zien we dit (verkiezing) is de institutionalisering van de sektarische en installeren in plaats van ontworteld uit de wortels om het een realiteit is opgelegd aan de Iraakse thuis klop op zijn bevel, omdat hij had alleen onderdak sektarisme en stem voor haar en leiders van de gemeenschap in weerwil van alle wandaden talloze beschermen zelf of van andere Ktrtaivp nauwkeuriger, andere gemeenschappen op de loer in het land. Zo vinden we verrassend en ironisch in de tragedie van Irak, Iraakse burgers zijn flops met dezelfde en op te leggen op de remmen zelf en sektarische strijd sektarisme. En de gemeenschap dienen en de belangen van de elite tegen zijn wil. Het is uit gehoorzaamheid, en die weigert te lopen met de kudde en staat tegen deze pijnlijke realiteit of proberen om corrigerende, zelfs als de weg van vreedzame en beschaafde vindt zichzelf buiten de bescherming van de risico's gemeenschap Vthit en vernauwing van de manieren om in de grotere natie, wiens naam en Mesopotamië Irak Alhzarat Vtjd lijst van kant-en-klare kosten Pantdharh De eenvoudigste Baath-of terroristische zich bevindt tussen de 's nachts is vereist voor de verantwoording en Ajthath beslissen of zij opgesloten, omdat de kudde echt berouw is en wordt ofwel uitgevoerd zijn leven en ontsnappen aan de democratie van moord, corruptie en sektarisme en de eeuwige bloedige strijd.
Sectarianism is to win in the (election) Iraq and in previous times. Because the electoral lists are the lists of fear and apprehension of the other regardless of differences in denomination. Valriasat three are the Prime Minister and President of the Republic and the Presidency of the parliament are reserved and will remain, but (monopoly) for the three major communities of Shiites, Kurds and Sunni Arabs and sites of ministries and sensitive positions in the State, which will be distributed in accordance sectarian parties and sects, warlords and militia leaders, despite the bloody history of many of them and financial corruption and administrative known to be against the law and on the nose (the Integrity Commission), especially on the nose against Iraqi citizens and are subject to quotas sectarian minister Arun and (distributed) by (compatibility) required by the communal and the higher interest of the community and its elders and princes!!! . Hakma and unfortunately we see this (election) is the institutionalization of sectarian and install it instead of uprooted from the roots to it is a reality imposed on the Iraqi home knock on his order because he had only shelter sectarianism and vote for her and community leaders in spite of all misdeeds countless protect itself or other Ktrtaivp more accurately, other communities lurking within the country. Thus, we find surprising and ironic in the tragedy of Iraq, Iraqi citizens are flops with the same and to impose upon the braking himself and sectarian fighting sectarianism. And serve the community and the interests of the elite against his will. It is out of obedience, and which refuses to walk with the herd and stands against this painful reality or trying to corrective, even if the path of peaceful and civilized finds himself outside the protection of the community Vthit risks and narrowing of the ways in the greater nation, whose name and Mesopotamia Iraq Alhzarat Vtjd list of ready-made charges Pantdharh The easiest Baathist or terrorist finds himself between the overnight is required for accountability and Ajthath decide either to shut up because the herd is truly remorseful and is either carried out his life and escape from the democracy of murder, corruption and sectarianism and the eternal bloody struggle.
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