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Erstunterzeichner/
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Liste
der 218 (Stand 1.4.2005) namentlich bekannten
getöteten Akademiker
zum Hintergrund
Ein
Krieg, um die Kultur und die Zukunft der Iraker zu zerstören
Internationales
Seminar über die Ermordung von irakischen Akademikern
Programm, Resolution,
Bericht,
Dokumentationen
Rüdiger Göbel
Kinder im Irak gefoltert
Schwere Vorwürfe gegen US-Besatzungstruppen
"In einem dramatischen Appell
rufen Intellektuelle und Friedensaktivisten darüber hinaus zum Schutz der Akademiker des Irak auf"
(junge Welt 16.02.2006):
Dokumentiert:
Dringender Aufruf zum Schutz der Akademiker des Irak
(junge Welt 16.02.2006)
Karin Leukefeld
Iraks Akademiker fliehen zu Tausenden
(Neues Deutschland, 25.1.2006)
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Januar
2006
Ein wenig bekannter Aspekt der Tragödie, die sich derzeit im Irak abspielt, ist die systematische Liquidierung der Akademiker des Landes. Konservativen Schätzungen zufolge sind bereits mehr als zweihundertfünfzig Lehrer und Dozenten politischen Mordanschlägen zum Opfer gefallen, und viele hundert weitere sind verschwunden. Da Tausende aus Angst um ihr Leben aus dem Land fliehen, werden dem Irak nicht nur wichtige intellektuelle Ressourcen entzogen, sondern auch die säkular orientierten Mittelschichten, die eine Einbindung in die US-Besatzung bisher verweigert haben, dezimiert, ein Umstand, der
weitreichende Folgen für die Zukunft des Irak haben wird.
Schon am 14. Juli 2004 berichtete der erfahrene Korrespondent Robert Fisk aus dem Irak: „Universitätsdozenten hegen den Verdacht, dass es sich hier um eine organisierte Kampagne handelt, die dem Irak seine Akademiker nehmen soll, um so die Zerstörung der kulturellen Identität des Irak zu vollenden, die mit dem Einmarsch der amerikanischen Armee in Bagdad begonnen hat.“
Diese Welle politischer Morde unterscheidet offenbar weder nach Partei noch nach Konfession oder Geschlecht und hat sich über das gesamte Land ausgebreitet. Außerdem richtet sie sich gegen alle Fachbereiche: unter den Getöteten befinden sich sowohl Professoren für Geographie, Geschichte und Arabistik als auch naturwissenschaftliche Gelehrte. Bisher ist nicht eine einzige Person im Zusammenhang mit diesen Attentaten verhaftet worden.
Laut der Universität der Vereinten Nationen sind mittlerweile etwa 84 Prozent der irakischen Einrichtungen für höhere Bildung niedergebrannt, geplündert oder zerstört worden. Das Bildungswesen des Irak gehörte ehemals zu den besten der Region, und seine gut ausgebildete Bevölkerung war einer der wichtigsten Aktivposten des Landes.
Diese Lage ist ein Spiegel der Besatzung als Ganzes: Sie ist eine Katastrophe ungeheuren Ausmaßes, die sich in einem Klima verbrecherischer Gleichgültigkeit entwickelt. Als Besatzungsmacht und nach den Regeln des humanitärem Völkerrechts tragen die Vereinigten Staaten die Hauptverantwortung für
die Bürger des Irak, einschließlich seiner Akademiker.
Mit diesem Aufruf wollen wir dazu beitragen, das Schweigen zu durchbrechen.
1. Wir appellieren an Organisationen, die sich für die Durchsetzung und Verteidigung des humanitären Völkerrechts engagieren, sich aktiv mit diesen Verbrechen zu befassen.
2. Wir fordern die umgehende Einleitung einer unabhängigen internationalen Untersuchung dieser „extralegalen Hinrichtungen“. Dabei sollten die Ermittlungen auch die Frage der Verantwortlichkeit untersuchen, um eindeutig klarzustellen, wer für diese Situation zur Rechenschaft zu
ziehen ist. Wir appellieren an den Sonderberichterstatter über summarische Hinrichtungen des
UN-Hochkommissariats für Menschenrechte (UNHCHR) in Genf, sich dieses Themas anzunehmen
Übersetzung aus dem Englischen:
Tim Slater/Michael Schiffmann
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Sie können diesen
Aufruf online unterschrieben
unter http://www.petitiononline.com/Iraqacad/petition.html oder mittels einer E-Mail
an die Adresse info@brusselstribunal.org,
Betreff „I sign the appeal to save Iraq’s academics“.
Bitte stets auch eine Kopie an
Joachim.Guilliard@t-online.de,
damit wir einen Überblick über die Unterzeichner aus Deutschland
erhalten. Diese werden auf dieser Seite (www.iraktribunal.de)
gelistet.
Initiatoren,
unterstützende Organisationen und Schirmherren
Dieser Aufruf wurde vom BRussells Tribunal (http://www.brusselstribunal.org) initiiert, und wird bereits von CEOSI
(Spanische Kampagne gegen Besatzung und für die
Souveränität des Irak),
der portugiesischen Sitzung des WTI, der deutschen Tribunalinitiative ITI,
dem International Action Center (USA), der
International Association of Middle East Studies (IAMES), der Deutschen Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient (DAVO) und der European Association for Middle Eastern Studies (EURAMES), sowie zahlreichen prominenten Personen
unterstützt.
Als
Schirmherren und Erstunterzeichner fungieren u.a. die Literaturnobelpreisträger
Dario Fo, José Saramago, John M. Coetzee und Harold
Pinter, von Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Tony Benn, Eduardo Galeano, Hans von
Sponeck, Susan George, John Pilger, Samir Amin, Immanuel
Wallerstein und Michael Parenti (mehr siehe ErstunterzeichnerInnen
weiter unten)
Siehe auch
den Aktionsaufruf weiter unten,
sowie weitere Information unter http://www.brusselstribunal.org/Academics.htm
Appell und Aktionsaufruf gibt es unter http://www.brusselstribunal.org/Academicspetition.htm auch in
mehreren anderen Sprachen, u.a. in Englisch, Arabisch, Spanisch, Französisch, Portugiesisch, Japanisch und Türkisch.
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Aktionsaufruf zur Rettung der Wissenschaftler Iraks
1. Wir fordern alle Menschen, insbesondere Akademiker und Studenten, auf, zur Beendigung des Schweigens über die verbrecherische Ermordung irakischer Akademiker und die Zerstörung des irakischen Bildungswesens beizutragen und das Recht und die Hoffnung der Akademiker des Irak auf das Leben in einem unabhängigen, demokratischen Irak frei von ausländischer Besatzung und Hegemonie zu unterstützen.
2. Wir fordern alle akademische Einrichtungen und Organisationen auf, sich mit ihren irakischen Kollegen solidarisch zu erklären.
3. Wir fordern alle Akademiker auf, enge Verbindungen zwischen den irakischen Pädagogen im Irak wie im Exil und den Universitäten auf der ganzen Welt herzustellen.
4. Wir fordern alle Studentenorganisationen auf, Verbindungen mit den irakischen Studentenverbänden zu knüpfen.
5. Wir fordern alle Pädagogen auf, ihre Kollegen und andere besorgte Bürger zum Kampf für die Rettung des intellektuellen Reichtums des Irak zu mobilisieren, indem sie Seminare, Teach-Ins und Foren über die verzweifelte Lage der Akademiker des Irak organisieren.
Die Akademiker und Intellektuellen auf der ganzen Welt müssen jetzt aktiv werden, um das Leben ihrer Kollegen im Irak zu retten.
Das
BRussells Tribunal hat in Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Organisationen begonnen, ein Netzwerk von Kontakten zu knüpfen und Öffentlichkeit über das Thema herzustellen. Es kann Einzelpersonen und Gruppen, die zu diesem Thema mobilisieren wollen, Information und Unterstützung bieten. Wir können als Sammelstelle und Achse dieser Kampagne
fungieren (http://www.brusselstribunal.org/Academics.htm
)
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ermorderter irakischer Wissenschaftler
und Intellektueller
ErstunterzeichnerInnen und Schirmherren dieser Kampagne
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international
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aus dem Irak
- Tribunalbewegung, Aktivisten
international
- aus Deutschland
International
, Professor für Linguistik & Philosophie der Sprache, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Tony Benn, Präsident der britischen Stop The War Coalition, ehem. britischer Abgeordneter, Kabinettsminister and Vorsitzender der britischen Labour Party, GB
John M. Coetzee, Literatur-Nobel-Preis 2003, Südafrika
Harold Pinter, Literatur-Nobel-Preis 2005, GB
Eduardo Galeano, Schriftsteller, Journalist, Historiker und Aktivist, Uruguay
Denis J. Halliday, ehem. beigeordneter UN-Generalsekretär und Koordinator des humanitären UN-Hilfsprogramms für den Irak 1994-98
Hans von Sponeck, ehem. beigeordneter UN-Generalsekretär und Koordinator des humanitären UN-Hilfsprogramms für den Irak, 1998-2000, Deutschland
Howard Zinn, Professor, Schriftsteller, Hochschullehrer und führende Persönlichkeit des gewaltfreien sozialen Protest, USA**
John Pilger, Hournalist und Documentarfilmer, GB/Australien
Michael Parenti, Autor, USA
Antonio Negri, Politischer und Moral philosoph, Italien
Michael Hardt,
Professor für Literatur, Duke University, USA, Ko-Autor of Empire
Robert A. Dahl, Politischer Theoretiker, Yale University, USA
Dr. Curtis F.J. Doebbler, Internationaler Menschenrechtsanwalt
François Houtart, Prof. emeritus, Direktor des Tricontinental Center ‘CeTri’, Belgien
Prof. Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University, USA.**
Richard Falk, Prof. emeritus des Internationalen Rechts und Praxis an der Princeton University Vorsitzender der Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Empfänger des UNESCO-Preises für Friedenserziehung, USA
Naomi Klein, preisgekrönte Journalistin and Autorin, Kanada
Susan George, Autor von A Fate Worse Than Debt (dt. Sie sterben an unserem Geld) und Another World Is Possible, France
Bianca Jagger, Mitglied des Führungsrates Exekutiv-Direktors von Amnesty International, USA, des Beirats von Human Rights Watch, USA und des Beirats der Koalition für International Gerechtigkeit, USA
Dennis Brutus, Professor emeritus, Abteilung für Afrikanische Studien, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Juan R. I. Cole, Professor für moderne mittel-östliche und Südasiatische Geschichte an der Geschichtsfakultät der University of Michigan, USA
Jean Bricmont, Professor für Theoretische Physik, U.C. Louvain-La-Neuve,
Belgien
Raymond William Baker, Präsident of IAMES (International Association of Middle East Studies) und Präsident des Verwaltungsrat einer transnationaler Initiative für den Aufbau einer internationaler Universität im Irak
Francis A. Boyle, Rechtsprofessor, University of Illinois
Michel Chossudovsky, Professor für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, University of Ottawa, Direktor, des Centre for Research on Globalization, Canada
Niloufer Bhagwat, Vizepräsident, Indischen Anwaltsvereinigung – Mumbai, IndienKatharine Gun, Iraq war whistleblower, UK
Irak
N. D.Kharrufa, Arzt, Gesundheitsministerium, Irak
Rafid A
Najim, Professor an der Medizinische Fakultät der Universität Bagdad, Irak
Dr. Talat al Mukhtar, Medizinische Fakultät der Universität Bagdad, Irak
Abdul Ilah Al-Bayaty,
Schriftsteller, Journalist, Irak / Frankreich
Haifa Zangana,
Schriftstellerin, Irak/GB
Sabah Al-Mukhtar, Präsident der Vereinigung Arabischer Anwälte – Irak/GB
Prof. Mujbil Al-Marsumi, Irak, Applied Science University, Amman, Jordan**
Imad Khadduri, Nuklearwissenschaftler, Irak/Kanada
Sami Ramadani, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, London Metropolitan University –
Irak/GB
Salah
Almukhtar, Autor, Journalist und Vorsitzender der Freundschaft, Frieden und
Solidaritäts Organisation, Irak
Prof. Mohammed
Al-Obaidi, Sprecher und stellv. Generalsecretär des People’s Struggle Movement,
Irak
Abdulkarim Hani,
Arzt, Arab National Current Movement, Irak
Sabah
Jawad, Aktivist, Iraqsche Demokraten gegen die Besatzung, GB
Nada Fadhil
Al-Rubaiee, Pharmazeutische Wissenschaften, Niederlande/Irak
Mujbil
Al-Marsumi, University professor, Iraq, Applied Science University, Amman
Noor A.
Haithi, Lehrerin, Irak
Fadhil Badran, Professor,
Irak, iraq4ever
Sabah Jasim,
Schriftsteller, Irak
Ferial J.
Ghazoul, Prof. für Englisch und vergleichende Literatur an der American University in
Kairo
Sami
Salman, Professor Dr. med, Irak
Haider Al
Bahrani, Professor für Hebräisch, Irak
Dr. Mudhafar Amin, Professor für iraqische Geschichte, ehem.
Botschafter, Irak
Tahrir
Swift, Direktor von Arab Media Watch, Irak/ GB
Nadje
Al-Ali, Dr. der Sozial-Anthropologie, University of Exeter, Institut für Arabische
und Islamische Studien, GB
Tribunalbewegung, Aktivisten
international
Prof. Lieven De Cauter, Philosoph, K. Universiät Leuven / Rits, Initiator des BRussells Tribunals
Dirk
Adriaensens, Koordinator von SOS Irak, Exekutive Kommittee des BRussells
Tribunal
Carlos
Varea, Koordinator of CEOSI (Spanische Kampagne gegen Besatzung und für die
Souveränität des Irak) – Spanien
Bert De
Belder, Dr. med., Koordinator v. Intal & Medical Aid For The Third World,
Belgien
Geert Van
Moorter, Dr. med., Zeuge von US-Verbrechen im Irak, Medical Aid for the Third World,
Belgien
Pol De
Vos, Stop USA – Belgien
John
Catalinotto, International Action Center – USA
Hana Al
Bayaty, Filmmacherin, Journalistin, Irak/Ägypten/Frankreich
Ayse
Berktay, Organisatorin des World Tribunal on Iraq WTI, Türkei
Helmar Lorenz,
procureur
Nederland - Pays-Bas Europees kantoor 'Milieu en Energie'
Günter Schenk,
Aktionsbündnis
für einen gerechten Frieden für Palästina, Collectif Judéo-arabe et
citoyen pour la Paix au Proche Orient" Strasbourg, Beinheim, Frankreich
aus
Deutschland
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Der Vorstand der deutschen IPPNW-Sektion
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Prof.
Norman
Paech, Professor für Öffentliches recht, Universität Hamburg, Mitglied des Bundestags, Deutschland
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Prof.
Dr. med. Ulrich Gottstein, Gründungs- und Ehrenvorstandsmitglied der
deutschen Sektion der IPPNW, Frankfurt
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Prof.
Dr. med. Horst-Eberhardt Richter, Psychoanalytiker, Psychiater und Sozialphilosoph,
Mitbegründer und Ehrenvorstandsmitglied der deutschen Sektion der IPPNW ,
Giessen
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Prof. Peter Riedesser,
Direktor der Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie Hamburg, Vorstandsmitglied der
IPPNW
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Prof. Elmar
Altvater, Professor für Politikwissenschaft an der FU-Berlin, Redaktionsmitglied der PROKLA,
Deutschland
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Prof.
Werner Ruf, Prof. em., Gesamthochschule
Kassel
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Prof.
Gregor
Schirmer, Völkerrechtler, Woltersdorf
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Prof. Günter Meyer, der Deutschen Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient (DAVO), Universität Mainz, Deutschland
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Prof. Barbara Dietrich,
Frankfurt
- Prof. Dirk Berg-Schlosser
, Institut für Politische Wissenschaften, Philipps Universität, Marburg,
Deutschland
- Prof. Wolfgang Richter,
Vorstandsmitglied der
dt. Sektion des Europ. Friedensforums ( epf), Vorsitzender der Ges. zum Schutz
v. Bürgerrecht u. Menschenwürde, GBM, Berlin
- Matthias Jochheim,
Arzt für Allgemeinmedizin und Psychotherapeut, Vorstandsmitglied der
deutschen Sektion der IPPNW, Frankfurt
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Joachim
Guilliard,
Koordinator von ITI (Deutsche Tribunal Initiative)
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Marion
Küpker, Internationaler
Koordinator gegen Nukleare und Uran Waffen der GAAA und DFG-VK, Deutschland
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Dr. Sabah Alnasseri,
Politologe, Deutschland/Irak, Universität Frankfurt
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Ernst-Peter Rührnschopf,
Mathematiker, Erlangen, Deutschland
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Siegrun Dewald-Rührnschopf, Erlangen,
Deutschland
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Dr.
Lothar Häberle,
Researcher
and Teaching Assistant, Germany, Universität Jena
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Thomas
Schmidt,
Rechtsanwalt, Generalsekretär der European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human
Rights EALDH, Deutschland
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Winfried Wolf, Wissenschaftlicher Beirat von attac
Deutschland, Herausgeber der "Zeitung gegen den Krieg
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Ulrich Wolf,
Stellvertretender
Vorsitzender des Nahost-Forums e. V.
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Willi van Ooyen,
Friedens-
und Zukunftswerkstatt e. V., Bundesausschuß Friedensratschlag, Frankfurt
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Laura v. Wimmersperg,
Moderatorin
der Berliner Friedenskoordination
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Barbara Fuchs,
art-manager,
Attac-D, Berlin
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Dr. Reiner
Steinweg, Friedensforschung Linz
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Bruno Mahlow,
Vorstandsmitglied der
dt. Sektion des Europ. Friedensforums ( epf), Berlin
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Helmut Semmelmann,
Vorstandsmitglied der dt. Sektion des Europ. Friedensforums (epf),
Berlin
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Klaus
Elste,
Vorstandsmitglied der dt. Sektion des Europ. Friedensforums ( epf), Berlin
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Hanne Adams,
Thüringer
Friedenskoordination, Lehrerin i.R., Bedheim
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Dr. Iris Konopik,
Lektorat & Herstellung, Argument Verlag, Hamburg
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Dr. Alexander Bahar,
Historiker
und Publizist, Heilbronn
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Karl-Dieter Hahn,
evangelische
Jugendarbeit, Nürnberg
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Doris Pumphrey,
Berlin
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George Pumphrey, Berlin
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Karl-Heinz Peil,
Friedens- und Zukunftswerkstatt e. V, Frankfurt
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Michael
Schmid, Vorsitzender des Internationalen Versöhnungsbund, Baden-Württemberg
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Leila Abdulla,
Übersetzerin,
Heidelberg
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Marianne Link,
Lehrerin,
Heidelberg
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Sigrun
Steinborn, Berlin
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Jana Arloth,
Germany
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Ines Westberg,
Hamburg
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Werner Traemailow,
Essen
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Dr. Manfred Lotze,
IPPNW, Hamburg
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Jürgen von Esenwein,
M. A., Leimen, Germany
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Werner Schuren,
Sozialberater, Winsen/Luhe, Germany
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Dr.-Ing. Werner Strecke,
Germany
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Carsten Fischer, Angestellter/Employee,
München, Germany
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Dr. Thomas Hohnerlein,
FR 4.2. Romanistik, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken
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Monika
Krotter-Hartmann, Offenbach, Germany
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Claudia
Karas, Frankfurt, Aktionsbündnis für einen gerechten Frieden in
Palästina
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Mathias
Gross, Initiative Globale Gleichheit, Heilbronn
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Anne
Schade-Branciforti, Köln, Sonderschullehrerin, SPD- und Gewerkschaftsmitglied
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Sophia
Deeg, Autorin, Berlin
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Iraqi
intellectuals under siege - Al Jazeera, 29 Febr 2004.
- Iraqi
intellectuals flee 'death squads' - Al Jazeera, 30 March 2004.
- Death
to those who dare to speak out - CS Monitor 30 April 2004.
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Iraqi
intellectuals appeal for security - Al Jazeera 19 May 2004.
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"It
has begun." - Dahr Jamail, 13 June 2004.
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Where is this
going? - Al Ahram 16 June 2004.
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Academics targeted as
murder and mayhem hits Iraqi colleges - Robert Fisk 14 July 2004.
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The slaughter of Iraq's
intellectuals - The New Statesman, 06 Sept 2004.
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Iraq
losing its best and brightest, CS Monitor 21 Sept 2004.
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IRAQ:
Rising threat against academics fuels brain drain -IRIN news 28 Oct
2004.
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Joint
Statement by MESA, AAUP, AAAS, 05 Nov 2004.
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A
Sinister Campaign, 11 Dec 2004.
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Approximately
300 academics have been killed - 17 Jan 2005.
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The
Destruction of Iraq’s Educational System under US Occupation - Ghali
Hassan 11 May 2005.
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Iraq
healers have become targets , IHT 31 May 2005.
- List
of assassinated Iraqis, Al Jazeera 22 Sept 2005.
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Medics
fleeing Iraq's violence in their thousands, 25
Sept 2005.
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In the line of
Fire, AAAS 30 Sept 2005.
- Everyone
is a target in Iraq, Al Jazeera 14 Oct 2005.
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Guidelines
Relating to the Eligibility of Iraqi Asylum-Seekers October 2005, UNHCR
Report [PDF]
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Iraq’s Science Community: to be or not to be
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Who's killing Iraqi
intellectuals? - 03 Dec 2005.
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Iraqi Intellectuals and
the Occupation, Interview with Dr. Saad Jawad - 03 Jan 2006.
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Death of Humanity,
Felicity Arbuthnot - 18 Jan 2006.
- Professionals
Fleeing Iraq As Violence, Threats Persist. Exodus of Educated Elite, Washington Post - 23 Jan 2006
More
than 250 Iraqi college professors assassinated
http://www.aaup.org/Issues/international/country/Iraq.htm
The
International Coalition of Academics Against Occupation (ICAAO) has issued the
following statement on the assassination of Iraqi intellectuals (8/11/04):
Even
after the ‘transfer of authority’ the U.S. Government remains in de facto
military occupation of Iraq. The idea that the escalation of violence can be put
to an end by the ‘interim’ government, while 140,000 U.S troops remain in
control of major Iraqi cities like Mosul and Baghdad, is far from the reality on
the ground.
Overlooked
by the U.S. Press is the escalating assassination of Iraqi academics,
intellectuals, and lecturers. More than 250 college professors since April 30,
2003, according to the Iraqi Union of University Lecturers, have been the
targets of assassination. Among the 250 professors assassinated to date include:
Muhammad al-Rawi, President of Baghdad University (July 27, 2003); Dr. Abdul
Latif al-Mayah a Professor of Political Science at Baghdad's Mustansiriya
University (late January 2003); Dr. Nafa Aboud, a Professor of Arabic Literature
at the University of Baghdad; Dr Sabri al-Bayati; a Geographer at the University
of Baghdad; Dr. Falah al-Dulaimi, Assistant Dean of College at Mustansariya
University; Dr. Hissam Sharif, Department of History of the University of
Baghdad; and Professor Wajih Mahjoub of the College of Physical Education.
Whoever
is responsible for these targeted assassinations, the U.S. and its Coalition of
Allies , all of them commanding and controlling the ongoing de facto occupation
of Iraq—bear an international responsibility and obligation to protect
civilians living under occupation and who are protected by the 4th Article of
the Geneva Convention.
The
Geneva Convention, which the U.S. and others nations have signed without
reservation, holds all occupying authorities responsible for the condition
pertaining to the lives of Iraqi intellectuals, professors, and civilians of all
types, including the further undermining of the already sanctioned and utterly
destroyed system of education in Iraq. We, the undersigned, deplore the killing
of professors, intellectuals and other civilians, and urge a full Congressional
investigation into the circumstances that led to the ongoing, systematic and
targeted assassination of Iraqi intellectual, academics, and professors.
According to Union of Iraqi Lecturers, if “the stream of assassinations”
continues Iraqi Colleges and Universities will be left without a qualified
teaching staff.
Iraq’s
Science Community: to be or not to be
British
and American scientists and academics assisted the birth of Iraq’s science
community in the last century; can they help it now to be born again?
Two
international initiatives to help Iraqi scientists and academics to reconstruct
their community began two years ago. They were independent of each other.
The first initiative was supported by American academic institutions (see main
text), the second by British
counterparts. International Symposium on Higher Education in Iraq is an
initiative by a group of expatriate Iraqi academics working in UK. “We are
following different avenues”, says Dr. Gahzi Derwish, visiting professor of
Surrey University and member of the Symposium Organising Committee. “Our aim
is to explore the needs of universities in Iraq, help to set their priorities
and determine how best British Universities and other organizations can help in
restoring the once flourishing links between Iraq’s academic institutions and
their correlatives in the west”.
“Higher
education has been the incubator of R&D in Iraq”, says Dr. Derwish, a
veteran scientist who obtained his PhD in chemistry from the University of
London and held prestigious scientific posts in Iraq for four decades. The
public sector comprises 20 universities and 47 technical institutions with about
350,000 students and 18,000 academic staff. There are also 10 private sector
higher education colleges with some 15,000 students.
The
Symposium, hosted last month by the University of Westminster in London, was
attended by 170 academics, 20 of them presidents, assistant presidents and deans
of Iraqi universities. Abbas Al-Hussainy, Secretary General of the Symposium and
senior lecturer at Westminster University, said that they discussed with their
British colleagues curriculum modernization, ways to establish higher education
policies and strategies that can effectively deal with the challenges of the
reconstruction period. Parallel to the political issues being debated in Iraq;
special workshops in the Symposium were devoted to centralisation vs.
de-centralisation, role and regulation of private universities and radical
rethinking of scientific research in line with national needs.
Beyond
discussing what needs to be done, some practical measures have already been
taken since the first Symposium held in January 2004. Dr. Al-Hussainy said that
several training workshops, research co-operations, and academic/scientific
visits for Iraqis were organised by a number of British universities
(Birmingham, Nottingham, John Moor, Bangor, Westminster, Surrey, Cardiff,
Greenwich). The Association of Iraqi Academics in UK and a number of British
universities have arranged donation of books and scientific journals to Iraqi
universities. The Association of British Publishers invited Iraqi university
librarians to attend the British Book Fair and to establish contacts with UK
publishers. British and European universities offered scholarships for MSc and
PhD degrees to six Iraqi Universities.
Furthermore, the British Council contributed six-month
training courses for seven academics under the Chevening Technology Enterprise
Scholarship Programme.
Dr.
Derwish points out that few scholarships and training courses will not be
sufficient to alleviate the tragic state engulfing Iraq’s science community. A
recent Report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in
Baghdad stated “Iraq’s
university laboratories suffered heavy damage during the US invasion two years
ago and are desperately short of essential equipment and chemicals needed to
teach medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and several other science subjects. As a
result, 15 students or more have to share a single set of equipment during
practical experiments, three times more than the internationally recommended
maximum of five”. University teachers grumble that thousands of graduates are
being turned out every year short on practical knowledge.
Iraqi
scientists and academics are suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous
fortune as they face the constant danger of assassination and kidnapping.
According to Sami Mudhaffar, minister of Higher Education and Science Research,
54 Iraqi scientists and academics have been assassinated. In an interview to
London based Arabic newspaper Ashahrq Alawsat, Dr. Mudhaffar expressed his
regret for accepting ministerial responsibility “only one of 14 reconstruction
projects ready for implementation has been carried out”. The reason, he said
is the “halt of ministry expenditure”. He added, “All the talk about
international donations is an empty promise. Many of the 200 contracts and
agreements that were signed didn’t benefit the country. On the contrary they
added more debts to an already heavily debited nation”.
M.A
H.A
Recent examples of killed Academics
August
5 2005
ل
مصدر في
الجامعة
المستنصرية
ان (مجهولين
امطروا
الدكتور
زكي باكر
سجر العاني
التدريسي في
كلية الاداب
والدكتور
هاشم عبد
الامير
التدريسي في
كلية
التربية
بوابل من
نيران
اسلحتهم خلال
خروجهما من
بوابة
الجامعة مما
ادي الي مصرعهما).علي
صعيد متصل
اختطف
مجهولون
الدكتور سمير
يلدا معاون
عميد كلية
الادارة
والاقتصاد
في الجامعة
يوم الاحد
الماضي.وقال
المصدر ان (عملية
الاختطاف تمت
امام بوابة
الجامعة من
دون معرفة
اسباب
الاختطاف ولا
دوافع
الخاطفين وقد
وجدت جثته
ملقية في
احد الشوارع
اول امس).ويذكر
ان اكثر من 55
استاذا
جامعيا تم
اغتيالهم
خلال المدة
التي
اعقبت سقوط
النظام
السابق حتي
الان الامر
الذي دفع
العديد من
اساتذة
الجامعات
الي
مغادرة
العراق.
Three
university lecturers were assassinated by unknowns, by shooting. The source from
university of almustansiria university said that, some unknowns fired a flow of
bullets, Dr Zaki Bakir Alaany,the lecturer in college of literature and Dr
Hashim Abdulameer ,the lecturer in college education, while they were on their
way out from the university gate. On the other hand Dr Sameer yelda was
kidnapped from outside the gate of the university, the day before yesterday. It
is known that 55 university professors were assassinated after the fall of the
past regime; this forced many university professors to leave IRAQ.
University Professor in Basrah is
kidnapped
Reference:
Aliraqnew
12/9/2005
Unknown armed group has kidnapped Dr
professor Haithem Ooda, deputy head of chemical engineering department in the
University of Albasrah while he was on his way to office on Monday.
Eye witnesses said that unknown car has
stopped the professor while he was on his way to the office, then three armed
men forced him to inter their car and took him to unknown direction. It is
mentioned that university professors from Basrah city, south of IRAQ were
targets of assassinations, arresting and eliminating by armed groups linked with
the incoming parties from outside the borders together with US occupation.
University professors are worried from
these accidents in the beginning of the new academic year.
2005-09-18 -
09:43:56
30
medical doctors were killed and 220 others were forced to immigrate abroad
during the past period
Bahrain
Gulf News 18-09-2005
مقتل
30 طبيبا
عراقيا
وإجبار 220
على
الهجرة إلى
الخارج في
الفترة
الماضية
بغداد:
د. قيس
العزاوي، خاص
لأخبار
الخليج
Baghdad:
Qais Alazzawy, specially for Gulf News
مع
حادث استشهاد
الدكتور باسل
عباس حسين
اختصاصي
امراض القلب
على
يد القوات
الامريكية في
الخامس من
الشهر الجاري
عن طريق الخطأ
كما يقولون..
والكشف
عن سيارة
مفخخة حاولت
تفجير مستشفى
الكرامة،
اطلقت وزارة
الصحة حملة
كبرى
للحديث
عن الاطباء
الذين يسقطون
نتيجة واجبهم
الانساني
والذين
يتعرضون
للخطف
وابتزاز
عوائلهم لدفع
الفديات
وكذلك نزيف
الاطباء
الذين
يغادرون
العراق
نهائيا
والذين
بلغ عددهم
المئات. وقد
اشار الوكيل
الاداري في
وزارة الصحة
الدكتور جليل
الشمري
الى ان عدد
الاطباء
الذين
استشهدوا
خلال الفترة
الماضية بلغ 30
طبيبا فيما
بلغ
عدد الاطباء
الذين تم
تهجيرهم
واجبارهم
بالقوة
والتهديد على
السفر الى
خارج
العراق
اكثر من 220
طبيبا، ناهيك
عن أعداد
المخطوفين.
وكانت
وزارة
التعليم
العالي
قد اعلنت ان
عدد
المهاجرين من
اساتذة
الجامعات
تجاوز ألفي
استاذ مما دفع
الوزارة
إلى غلق 152 فرعا
تخصصيا في
ميدان
الدراسات
العليا بينما
تعج الاردن
وسوريا
بالاطباء
العراقيين
الذين يبحثون
عن عمل الى
درجة ان
الحكومة
السورية
افتتحت
مؤخراً
مستشفى
خاصا
لاستقبال
الاطباء
العراقيين
الذين هاجروا
من بلدهم.
26س
After Dr Basil Abbas
Husain ;the hurt specialist was martyred by the US forces on the fifth of this
month ,by mistake as they claimed…and the discovery of a car bomb which was
about to explode the Karame hospital; the ministry of health announced a
campaign to speak about the doctors who were victimised because of their human
duties and who are exposed to kidnapping or forcing their families to pay
ransoms also the number of doctors who left the country for good became
hundreds. The deputy health minister Dr Jaleel Alshammary declared
that the martyred doctors so far are 30, whereas those who were forced to
immigrate or threatened to immigrate abroad are more than 220 medical
doctor,. in addition to those who were kidnapped. The ministry of high education
announced that the number of immigrated university professors are more
than2000 so far. This obliged the ministry to close down 125 high degree
branches whereas Jordan and Syria became full of the Iraqi medical doctors who
are looking for jobs, so the Syrian government has opened a new hospital
composed of the Iraqi doctors who immigrated from their own country.
The Dean of the college of political
science in the University of Mosul was saved from assassination.
Dr Talal Aljaleely; the Dean of the
political science college, and his son were saved from an attempt to assassinate
them by a group of armed men, after they opened fire of light weapons against
them, in front of their house, which is located in the university site, while
they were about to leave out.
A medical source from the hospital of
educational alzahrawy hospital declared that Dr Aljaleely was shot in his back,
while his son was shot in his leg. The source assured that their state became
stable after they received a surgical intervention.
12/09/2005
Dear Colleague
I would like to inform you of the sad news of the murder of Dr Wissam Al Hashimi
in Baghdad in August this year.
Ina Lil Allah Waina Elaehe Rageoun.
This is another Iraqi scientist killed in Baghdad by the "organised
criminal and or organised terrorists". Another number to be add to body
count of civilian Iraqis since the "Liberation" which now amounts of
more than 1000 Doctors
and University staff murdered and thousands of similar qualifications who have
been forced out of Iraq since the "liberation." The total death toll
of civilian Iraqis ranges between 25,000-160,000 depending on your side of the
political fence.
Dr Al Hashimy was until his murder the president of the Union of Arab
Geologists. He persevered in serving Iraq throughout his career and helped
improve the co-operation between Geologists in Arab countries. He organised
several
(GEOCOME) conference of the Arab Geologists Union under difficult conditions in
several Arab capitols, including Cairo, Baghdad, Amman, Beirut, etc. and he was
planning another GEOCOME conference in Abu Dhabi in early 2006.
Dr Wissam Al Hashimi is an internationally known experts in Carbonates, and he
is well known for his important contributions to dolomite and dedolmitisation in
and outside Iraq. He was killed while he was preparing his last paper
"Porosities Of Carbonate Reservoirs Of The Mesopotamian Basin: An Insight
Into Their Origin" to be delivered in the AAPG International Conference and
Exhibition in Paris in the Wednesday 14/9/05 morning session.
He will be remembered by many Iraqi student of Geology whom he supervised and or
helped with their PhD and MSc projects.
Attached is an emotional letter from his daughter Tara to Dr Sadooni.
If you are like me was thinking of attending the planned Iraqi Higher Education
Conference in Baghdad later this year or earlier next year, I would rethink
again.
Regards,
M W IBRAHIM
Dear Mr.Sadooni,
I am Tara Al-Hashimi the daughter of the late Dr. Wissam Al-Hashimi. I'd like to
inform you that my father (Dr. AL- Hashimi) has died. He was kidnapped early in
the morning on the 24th Aug 2005 while going to work, his recent papers were
stolen. A ransom was given but unfortunately he was shoot twice in the
head and died. May his soul rest in peace. As his ID was taken from him it took
us about 2 weeks to find his body in one of Baghdad's hospitals.
Lately he was very busy preparing a paper that he was going to talk about it in
a meeting in Paris, Unfortunately he will not be able to attend the meeting. On
behalf of myself and the family we would like that at least the abstract
of his paper remains in the meeting's agenda and to be lectured by someone else.
NB: please contact me as soon as possible
Regards
Tara Al-Hashimi
University
Professor was exposed to armed assault
و
كالة الاخبار
العراقية : : 2005-11-15 -
13:50:17
The
Iraqi News Agency
افاد
مصدر في
الشرطة
العراقية
ان الدكتور
جاسم محمد
عميد كلية
الاداب في
الجامعة
المستنصرية
نجا من
محاولة
اغتيال ادت
الى مقتل
سائقه وتعرض
العميد الى
جروح واشارات
المصادر ان
مسلحين
مجهولين
هاجموا سيارة
تعود الى
وزارة
التعليم
واطلقوا
النار عليها
مما ادى الى
مقتل
السائق في
الحال واصابة
عميد الكلية
بجروح خطيرة
نقل على اثرها
الى المستشفى
Iraqi police source
announced that Dr Jasim mohammed the dean of literature college of the
university of al-mustansiria has escaped from an assassination attempt that
caused the death of his driver, while he was wounded. The sources has pointed
out that unknown armed men had attacked a car belongs to the ministry of high
education, opening fire towards it, that lead to the killing of the car
driver promptly and caused dangerous injuries to the dean of the college, who
was transferred to the hospital.
اغتيال
احد ابرز
اخصائيي
الامراض
الخبيثة في
العراق
Assasination
of one of the distinguished specialists in malignant deseases
اغتال
مجهولون
اليوم
الدكتور ( سامي
أيمن ) في داره
الكائن غرب
مدينة تكريت ،
وافادت عائلة
القتيل بان
مجموعة مسلحة
قامت بتطويق
داره وقتله
امام
ابناءه قبل ان
تلوذ بالفرار
، يذكر ان
الدكتور ( سامي
أيمن ) يعد من
ابرز اخصائيي
الامراض
المزمنة
والخبيثة
Dr
Sami Aymen was assassinated by unknowns in his house, that is located in the
west of tikreet city. The family of the victim declared that a group of armed
group had surrounded his house and killed him in front of his sons and escaped.
Dr sami aymen was one the distinguished specialists in the field of malignant
and chronic diseases
.
.
The Iraqi university staff
had lost a new martyr, who was assassinated by gun men today, in the west of
Baghdad. A spokesman from the ministry of interior affairs said that, criminals
attacked the martyred saad
yaseen al-ansary, the professor in the University of Baghdad, while he
was driving his car in saydia district, accompanied by his wife, who was injured
by the betrayal bullets, then transported to the hospital.
A source has mentioned a police
man was martyred in the same district today, by unknown criminals, while
others had assassinated an
engineer in al-ameen district, in addition to that, a
dead body was found with his hands bound together and his eyes wrapped in
sulaik district, and then shot dead.
وزارة
التعليم تعلن
اغتيال ثلاثة
علماء بجامعة
بغداد
The ministry of high education
announces, the assassination of three scientists from the university of Baghdad
بغداد:
أعلنت وزارة
التعليم
العالى
والبحث
العلمى
العراقية
اغتيال
ثلاثة علماء
واساتذة
يعملون فى
جامعة بغداد
خلال الايام
القليلة
الماضية
. واصدرت
الوزارة
بياناً جاء
فيه إن
العلماء
الذين
اغتيلوا هم
الدكتور هيكل
محمد الموسوى
الاستاذ فى
كلية طب
الكندى حيث تم
اغتياله فى
منطقة الصليخ
الجديد
بالعاصمة
بغداد،
والدكتور سعد
ياسين
الانصارى
الاستاذ
بكلية العلوم
الذى اغتيل
اثناء خروجه
من
منزله،
بالاضافة إلى
الدكتوررعد
محسن مطر
المولى رئيس
قسم علوم
الحياة فى
كلية العلوم
حيث تم
اغتياله فى
عيادته
Baghdad: The ministry of high
education and scientific research had announced, the assassination of three
scientists and professors, working in the university of Baghdad, during the past
few days. The ministry has named the assassinates as; Dr Haikal Mohammed
al-Moosawy, from the Kindy medical college, who was assassinated in alsulaik
district in Baghdad, and Dr Saad yaseen al-Ansary the professor from the college
of science, who was assassinated just outside his house, in addition to Dr Raad
Muhsin Mutar al-Mawla, the head of the biological sciences in the college of
science, who was assassinated in his clinic.
غتيال
مساعد عميد
كلية التربية
في الجامعة
المستنصرية
24-11-2005
Assassination of the deputy head of
the college of education in the University of Al-Mustansria
غتال
مسلحون
مجهولون مساء
اليوم
الاربعاء
مساعد عميد
كلية التربية
في الجامعة
المستنصرية
وسائقه. وقال
الرائد علي
صالح من شرطة
بغداد"ان
مسلحين
مجهولين
هاجموا
الدكتور كاظم
طلال حسين
مساعد عميد
كلية التربية
في الجامعة
المستنصرية
في الساعة
السادسة من
مساء اليوم
خلال تواحده
بمنطقة
الصليخ شمال
شرق بغداد
فاردوه قتيلا".
واضاف المصدر
ان سائق
الدكتور حسين
لقي حتفه في
الهجوم
،مبينا ان
المسلحين
لاذوا
بالفرار بعد
تنفيذ جريمتهم
Unknown armed men had assassinated the
deputy head of the college of education in the Al-Mustansiria University on
Wednesday night and his car driver. Major Raed Ali Salih from Baghdad police
declared that; unknown armed men had attacked Dr kadhim talal husain the deputy
dean of the college of education in the Al-Mustansiria University; on 6pm
tonight, while he was in Alsulaikh district, in the north east of Baghdad, and
shot him dead. The source added; that the car driver was shot dead in that
attack as well, while the armed men had escaped after committing their crime.
Islamic
memo(special):the Islamic memo correspondent in Al- Basra city , south of Iraq
said that more than 20 medical doctors and university professors, had received
threats to be killed during the past two days ,by unknowns
The
correspondent said that one of the distinguished heart surgeons in Al-Basra city
received a written threat that says(get out of from Al-Basra city or you will be
killed), whereas another professor from the university of Al-Basra city said;
that he found a paper on Saturday morning saying (get out you dirty sunny, or
you will be slaughtered like the camel)
Our correspondent said that all the
professors and medical doctors are thinking to flee from the city after the
threats, that they described as serious, accusing elements of Badr
brigade, the military wing of the IRSC, islamii revolution supreme council, in
Iraq, that is lead by Abdul Azeez`Al-Hakeem.
It is mentioned that two of those who
received the threats, were assassinated writhen the past two days; namely Dr
Saad Alrubaiee and the professor of the biological sciences in the college of
science Dr Omer Fakhri
Assassination
of academic from the institute of fine arts
26-12-2005
اغتال
مسلحون
مجهولون
استاذا
جامعيا في
معهد الفنون
الجميلة
صباح اليوم
الاثنين في
منطقة
الطوبجي
ببغداد. وقال
مصدر في وزارة
الدفاع ان
مسلحون
اطلقوا وابلا
من الرصاص على
الاستاذ نوفل
احمد في
الساعة
الثامنة
صباحا اثناء
خروجه من
منزله متوجها
الى مقر عمله".
ولم تتوفر
معلومات
تفصيلية عن
اسباب الحادث
الى الآن.
Unknown armed men had assassinated a
university professor of the institute of fine arts, on Monday morning in Toopchy
district in Baghdad. A source from the ministry of defence said that; armed men
fired a stream of bullets towards professor Nawfal Ahmed,on eight morning,
while he was getting out of his house, heading to his working office. No
detailed information was available about the causes of this incident so far.
Assassination
Of University Academic 25-12-2005
اعلن
مصدر في شرطة
بابل اليوم ان
دوريات
الشرطة عثرت
على جثة
الاستاذ
الجامعي (محسن
سليمان
العجيلي) الذي
يعمل في جامعة
بابل في داره
بمنطقة الغابات
التابعة
لناحية جبلة
شمال مدينة
الحلة , واضاف
المصدر ان
شهود عيان
افادوا بان
مسلحين
مجهولين
اقتحموا منزل
الاستاذ
الجامعي
وقتلوه قبل ان
يلوذوا
بالفرار
. يذكر ان
حالات مشابهة
عديدة حصلت
دون ان تعلن
اية جهة
مسؤوليتها
عنها.
Police
source in Babylon had announced today; that police patrols had found the body of
the university academic Muhsin Suleiman Alageely, who
was working in the university of Babylon, in his house, which is located in the
forest area in Hillah city.
The source added
that eyes witneses said that armed unknowns had stormed the house of the
university professor and killed him, before fleeing away. It is mentioned that
many similar cases had occurred with no claim of responsibility.
Assassination
of a Doctor and surviving another one in Al-Saidiah - 23-01-2006
Unknown armed men assassinated on Monday
morning a veterinary surgeon, Dr Atheer Husham Abdul-Hameed in
Al-Saydiah-district, while Dr Hilal AlBayaty- Head of the Iraqi institution of
computers survived an assassination, on the main road which is located between
Al-Saydiah and Al-Baya3 district. Major Ali Salih from Baghdad police said
an armed men fired their guns towards Dr Atheer Husham, while he was getting out
of his house in AlSaydiah, heading towards his office in Al-Sinag district in
the middle of Baghdad, and shot him dead instantly. He added that two cars
carrying armed men shot a stream of bullets towards the car of Dr Hilal
Al-Bayaty from both sides, that caused wounding two of his companions, while he
survived the assassination. This is one of the attempts of targeting the
scientific figures in the country.
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