Elections - Afghanistan
"Rig it so it doesn't look suspicious, I said. And what happens? In districts I had no ...
Date: 2009
From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]
Reference: DCDL-0012208
Description: Cartoon shows Hamid Karzai, the prime minister elect of Afghanistan, standing surrounded by voting papers and looking at election results. The official beside him is taken aback when Karzai criticises him for the botched rigging of the election which gives Karzai a landslide in districts in which he had no show and a touch and go result in his own stronghold. United Nations monitors said they had found "clear and convincing evidence" of fraud and election officials ordered a recount of thousands of disputed ballot papers. However by passing the 50% threshold Karzai may avoid a second round. After first rushing to praise the poll, diplomats have become shocked by the scale and audacity of rigging which threatens to invalidate an election the West paid for in the blood of soldiers killed in the security operation as well as an outlay of nearly #150 million. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Hamid Karzai. 5 November 2009
Date: 2009
From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures
Reference: DCDL-0012717
Description: Shows a caricature of Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan, standing on a map of Afghanistan, as a rock appears to hit him on the head. Refers to the news that Afghanistan's election commission proclaimed President Hamid Karzai the victor of the country's tumultuous ballot Monday, cancelling a planned runoff and ending a political crisis two and a half months after a fraud-marred first round. Two versions of different sizes available Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"I'm hoping to rig the vote..." "I' hoping to disrupt the vote..." "I'm hoping to survi...
Date: 2009
From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]
Reference: DCDL-0012079
Description: Shows three Afghani people preparing to vote in the election of 20 August. The first is the current President who hopes to retain power so he intends to rig the vote; the second is a member of the Taleban who intends to disrupt the vote; and the third is a woman who intends to try to survive the vote. Refers to the difficult circumstances in which this election is being held because the Taleban is determined to disrupt it which means voters are scared. Karzai is determined to stay in power which means (among other things) that he is guilty of selling out to women by retaining the law which allows rape within marriage thus condoning conservative Islamic values. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"This new Afghan government, me and my vice presidents, both former warlords, are deter...
Date: 2009
From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]
Reference: DCDL-0012746
Description: Shows the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai making a speech as vice presidents Ahmad Shar Massoud and Abdul Karim Khalili stand behind him. He says that he and his two vice-presidents (both former warlords) are determined to stamp out corruption. Khalili (on the right) comments that this should not be difficult as they have already looted everything not bolted down. Refers to the unopposed re-election of Hamid Khazai as president after the withdrawal of Abdullah Abdullah from the race citing lack of confidence in a fair election. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Winter, Mark, 1958- :Afghanistan. 7 April 2014
Date: 2014
From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers
Reference: DCDL-0027804
Description: Two versions of a cartoon relating to the upcoming Afghanistan elections. Multiple versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).