To Iraqi and Arab brothers and sisters
Hana Abdul Ilah Albayaty, BRussells Tribunal
20 April 2006
With your help and support, the BRussells
Tribunal was able to inform world public opinion on the sufferings of the
educated class in Iraq under the occupation and its collaborators. The
signatures of support for this campaign reached more than 8000, of persons and
organisations, representing the world’s intellectual elite.
We are continuing our campaign. We now have a network of relations all over the
world that we hope to mobilise to defend Iraqi academics and help them.
We are happy that many other groups are adopting this just campaign and we will
work to cooperate and coordinate our efforts while remaining vigilant that
collaborators with the occupation not use the martyrdom of our brothers and sons
for personal or sectarian interests. In our opinion, those who wish to defend
Iraqi academics should begin by condemning those who created the situation where
these crimes continue and go unpunished.
the BRussells Tribunal declared, and
declares, that defending academics is not separate from defending international
law, which condemns the occupation, from defending international humanitarian
law, which condemns the acts and policies of the occupation, and from the
necessity of being in solidarity with the Iraqi people and their national
anti-occupation movement.
Your support of the BRussells Tribunal
campaign reminds the world that Iraqi intellectuals will not be subjugated to
force and that they have the force of right.
Your support of the BRussells Tribunal
campaign is a condemnation of all assassinations, arrests, firings, oppression,
awe, impoverishment and starvation, and forced exile to which Iraqi
intellectuals are subjected.
Your support of the BRussells Tribunal
campaign is a demand for compensation and justice, which all affected families
are due; a demand to free prisoners, to stop the campaign of oppression; to
permit those who were dismissed to return to work, and those subject to forced
exile to return to their homes.
Your support of the BRussells Tribunal
campaign is a condemnation of the ignorance that governs Iraq since the
occupation until now.
Your support of the BRussells Tribunal
campaign defends the intellectual rights of freedom of thought, expression,
organisation, work, research, innovation, welfare, life and developing the
homeland.
Your support of the BRussells Tribunal
campaign supports the right of Iraqis to science and education.
Your support of the BRussells Tribunal
campaign is that you are in the frontline of those who defend freedom, progress,
human rights and peoples’ rights, far from sectarianism and self-interest.
There is no free Iraq if there is no free Iraqi intellectual.
There will be no development in Iraq if its intellectuals don’t enjoy the care
and gratitude of the nation.
We all should protect the national wealth that is our army of scientists,
technicians, administrators, culture workers, civil and military. Without them
Iraq cannot stand again.
As for the sea-foam, this will vanish.
Support our action and encourage us
www.brusselstribunal.org/AcademicsStatement200406.htm