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The sudden assertion of human criteria within a dehumanising framework of political manipulation can be like a flash of lightning illuminating a dark landscape

— Vaclav Havel

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The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) is a London-based independent non-profit organisation supporting regional media and democratic change.

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Iraqi journalists from the Institute for War & Peace Reporting – not identified by name because of concerns over their security – send eyewitness accounts of election day in four of Iraq’s cities.