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Police and Kurds Clash During London Iraq Election

JasonNParkinson
As bombs went off in Baghdad the London-based Iraq elections in Brent, North West London, did not go smoothly either. Some Iraqi-Kurds found they were unable to vote despite holding all the relevant documentation.

London Metropolitan police and TSG riot officers were brought in to contain the Kurdish voters in a pen. Tempers frayed and the Kurdish protestors pushed into the street and blocked the highway in a sit-down protest. As scuffles broke out and arrests made the police came under attack from bottles and rocks. The TSG riot police retaliated with batons and shields.

Despite the cloashes, the Kurdish voters held the street until their demands were met and they were allowed to vote in the Iraq election.
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5 comments // Police and Kurds Clash During London Iraq Election // Video

  • cynker
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      cynker  

    • this is disgusting, the police are being far more violent than the voters, some of them should be locked up, and a curse on the officer telling the man he cannot take pictures - he was an enemy of freedom

    • 1 year ago
  • quodnunquam
  • JasonNParkinson
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      JasonNParkinson  

    • Hi Adam.

      The complaints of vote refusal started when the rules on voting changed four times in one day. The staff in the polling station refused these people the vote. This was then enforced by the Met police, who herded the vote refusees into a metal protest pen.

      From what I witnessed that day, not only was the vote refusal an issue, there was also a massive clash due to cultural differences, some would call it racism. But the sheer lack of understanding from the Met police officers of Iraqi and Kurdish expressionism did not help this situation.

    • 1 year ago
  • Adam_O_Connell
  • Adam_O_Connell
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