Ablahad Afraim Sawa (Arabic: أبلحد أفرام ساوا) is an Iraqi Assyrian politician and former member of the National Assembly of Iraq.
[1] Sawa was born in 1948 in the Mar Yaqoub village in the Duhok Governorate, and was a writer before he began his political career.
[2] Sawa has previously commented on the restrictions that minority political parties faced in Iraq after the invasion, stating that they were given very few resources and even had to withdraw from elections at a point because of a lack of funding.
[3] Additionally, Sawa has previously contested Kurdish influence on Assyrian politics in Iraq, despite him winning a seat through the Kurdish bloc, claiming that the micro-minority status of Assyrians in Iraq made him feel like a second class citizen in the country.
[7] His party has rarely worked with other Assyrian political parties outside though who espouse a sectarian Chaldean identity, and in 2012, he wrote an accusatory letter addressed to Yonadam Kanna and the Assyrian Democratic Movement.