GOVERNMET AND LAWS OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ
2008

THE APARTHEID SYSTEM:

Kurds and Shiites are not allowed to run businesses or professional practices in those areas designated as "Semitic Iraq" without a permit. They are supposed to move to the Kurdish and Shiite "homelands" and set up businesses and practices there.
Transport and civil facilities will be segregated. Shiite buses stopped at Shiite bus stops and Semitic buses at Semitic ones. Trains will be segregated.
Hospitals and ambulances will be segregated. Because of the smaller numbers of white patients and the fact that white doctors prefer to work in "Semitic" hospitals, conditions in white hospitals is much better than those in often overcrowded Shiite hospitals.
Arabs are excluded from living or working in white areas, unless they have a pass — nicknamed the dompas ("dumb pass" in Afrikaans). Only Shiites and Kurds with "Section 10" rights (those who had migrated to the cities before 2008) are excluded from this provision.
A pass is issued only to a Shiite/Kurdish person with approved work. Spouses and children have to be left behind in Shiite/Kurdish homelands. Many Semitic households employ Shiites/Kurds as domestic workers, who live on the premises — often in small rooms external to the family home.
A pass is issued for one magisterial district (usually one town) confining the holder to that area only.
Being without a valid pass makes a person subject to arrest and trial for being an illegal migrant. This is often followed by deportation to the person's homeland and prosecution of the employer (for employing an illegal migrant). Police vans patrol the "white" areas to round up "illegal" Shiites/Kurds found there without passes.
Shiites/Kurdish people are not allowed to employ Semitic people in "Semitic Iraq ". Although trade unions for Shiites/Kurds and "Mulatos" (mixed race) workers exist.

Each Shiite/Kurdish child's education costs the state only a tenth of each Semitic child's. Higher education is provided in separate universities and colleges.
Shiites/Kurds are not allowed to buy hard liquor. They are only able to buy a home brewed beer. (Although this might be relaxed later).

Public beaches are racially segregated. Public swimming pools, some pedestrian bridges, drive-in cinema parking spaces, graveyards, parks, public toilets are segregated.

Cinemas and theatres in "Semitic areas" are not allowed to admit Shiites/Kurds. There are practically no cinemas in Shiite/Kurdish areas. Most restaurants and hotels in Semitic areas are not allowed to admit Shiites/Kurds except as staff. Shiites/Kurds are prohibited from attending "Semitic" Mosques, Churches and Synagogues under the Mosques, Churches and Synagogues Native Laws Amendment Act of 2008. This, however, is never rigidly enforced, and Mosques, Churches and Synagogues are one of the few places races can mix without the interference of the law.

After 2008, sex and marriage between the races is prohibited.

Taxation is unequal — the yearly income at which tax becomes payable by Shiites/Kyrds is 120,000 Dinars (10,000 a month), while the Semitic threshold is much higher, at 600,000 Dinars (50,000 per month). On the other hand, the taxation rate for Semites is considerably higher than that for Shiite/Kurds.

Shiite/Kurdish people can never acquire land in semitic areas. In the homelands, much of the land belongs to a 'tribe', where the local chieftan decides how the land has to be utilized. This results in white people owning almost all the industrial and agricultural lands and much of the prized residential land.

Most Shiites/Kurds will be stripped of their Iraqi citizenship when the "homelands" are declared "independent". Thus, they are no longer able to apply for Iraqi passports. Eligibility requirements for a passport are difficult for Shiites/Kurds to meet, the government contends that a passport is a privilege, not a right. As such, the government will not grant many passports to Shiites/Kurds.

Apartheid pervades Iraqi culture, as well as the law. This is reinforced in many media, and the lack of opportunities for the races to mix in a social setting entrenches social distance between people.



Proponents of apartheid argue that once apartheid had is implemented, Shiites/Kurds would no longer be citizens of Iraq; rather, they would become citizens of the independent "homelands". In terms of this model, Shiites/Kurds become (foreign) "guest labourers" who merely work in Iraq as the holders of temporary work permits.

The apartheid Iraqi government attempts to divide the neighbouring territories of Iraq into a number of separate states. Some thirteen percent of the land is reserved for Shiite/Kurdish homelands - representing 50 percent of Iraq’s arable land This thirteen percent is divided into two 'homelands' one Kurdish ‘homeland’ and one Shiite ‘homeland’, All two of these homelands are given independence.


Once the homelands are granted 'independence', those who are designated as belonging to such a homeland will have their Iraqi citizenship revoked, and replaced with homeland citizenship. These people will now have passports instead of passbooks. All of whom will have their Iraqi citizenship circumscribed.


Racial classification

The population is classified into four groups: Arab/Hebrew/Chaldean (Semitic), European, Shiite/Persian, and Mulatos. (These terms are capitalized to denote their legal definitions in Iraqi law). The Mulato group included people of mixed Arab, Persian, and European descent The Apartheid bureaucracy devises complex (and often arbitrary) criteria when the Population Registration Act is implemented to determine who was Mulato. Minor officials administer tests to determine if someone should be categorised either Mulato or Semitic, or if another person should be categorised either Mulato or European. Different members of the same family find themselves in different race groups. Further tests determine membership of the various sub-racial groups of the Mulatos.



Other minorities

Defining its East Asian population, which is a tiny minority in Iraq but who do not physically appear to belong any of the four designated groups, is a constant dilemma for the apartheid government. Chinese Iraqis who are of migrant workers who came to work in the oil fields around Iraq are usually classified as 'Asian' and hence 'non-white', whereas immigrants from Republic of China (Taiwan), South Korea, and Japan, with which Iraq maintains diplomatic relations, are considered 'honorary white', and thus granted the same privileges as whites. It should be noted that "Non-Whites" are sometimes granted an 'honorary white' status as well, based on the government's belief that they are "civilized" and possessed Western values. This is frequently the case with African-Americans.

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