My Dad in the Philippines notes that...
Poll violence fatalities (murders) during the current election campaign reached 100 this week.
And its not just poll violence in my eyes
Of the 100 fatalities in the campaign for Monday's polls, 52 were candidates and politicians, 36 were identified as their supporters and 11 were civilians, police said.
52 were candidates. That is assassination, no? I mean its poll violence but at least here in the States you think of poll
discrepancies as having something to do with poll workers, voters, political activists; half of these deaths were candidates. Its kind of a small example of the problem they are having in Iraq. How do you get people to run for office challenging a status
quo that needs to be challenged, but every time you challenge it you end up shot in a
ditch?
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