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Little violence as Iraqis vote on charter
(AP)
Updated: 2005-10-16 08:51

A day that U.S. and Iraqi leaders feared could become bloody turned out to be the most peaceful in months, amid a heavy clampdown by U.S.-Iraqi forces across the country.

Insurgents attacked five of Baghdad's 1,200 polling stations, wounding seven voters, but there were no suicide bombings or other major attacks. Four Iraqi soldiers were reported killed by attacks far from polling sites — compared to the more than 100 attacks that hit January parliamentary elections, killing more than 40 people.

"The constitution is a sign of civilization," Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said after casting his ballot. "This constitution has come after heavy sacrifices. It is a new birth."

Iraqi soldiers carry ballot boxes at the end of the voting day, in Baqouba, Iraq, Saturday Oct. 15 2005
Iraqi soldiers carry ballot boxes at the end of the voting day, in Baqouba, Iraq, Saturday Oct. 15 2005. [AP]
The country's Shiite majority — some 60 percent of its estimated 27 million people — and the Kurds — another 20 percent — largely support the approximately 140-article charter, which provides them with autonomy in the northern and southern regions where they are concentrated.

The Sunni Arab minority, which dominated the country under Saddam Hussein and forms the backbone of the insurgency, widely opposes the draft, convinced its federalist system will tear the country into Shiite and Kurdish mini-states in the south and north, leaving Sunnis in an impoverished center.

Most Sunnis appeared to be voting "no" even after one major party, the Iraqi Islamic Party, came out in support of the draft because last-minute amendments promised Sunnis the chance to try to change the charter later.

"We have entered the political process now because our rights were being usurped by others who have marginalized us," said Sunni Hazem Jassim, 45, referring to Iraq's other factions.
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