Urgent action appeal:
Call for assistance in documenting and registering assassinated Iraqi academics
Saving Iraqi academics is saving the future
Greatly alarmed by the assassination of academics in Iraq, The BRussells Tribunal, in cooperation with the Spanish Campaign Against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (CEOSI), collected information since 2005 and alerted world public opinion on the situation of Iraqi academics.
We established a list of the assassinated in order that mandated human rights authorities investigate the killings and find a way to protect Iraq’s academics and cultural wealth.
The assassination, kidnapping, emigration and arrest of academics continue. The vast and horrific increase in civilian deaths at the hands of death squads and the emigration and killing of some of our sources prevent us from registering and documenting new victims.
We appeal to families, friends, educational associations, universities, colleges, schools and journalists to look at our list and inform us if someone is missing.
The list can be found here: http://www.brusselstribunal.org/academicsList.htm
and here: http://nodo50.org/iraq/2004-2005/docs/represion_11-11-05.html
These crimes must be investigated. Until now nothing has been done. Victims should not be forgotten and Iraq’s intellectual heritage and wealth should be saved.
To document these atrocities is an obligation for every academic who believes that passing on knowledge is a duty, not a crime.
The BRussells Tribunal Committee
The Spanish Campaign Against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (CEOSI)
In English or Dutch, contact Dirk Adriaensens: dirk.adriaensens@skynet.be
In Arabic, contact Abdul Ilah Albayaty: albayaty_abdul@hotmail.com
In French or English, contact Hana Albayaty: hanaalbayaty@yahoo.fr
In Spanish, contact Carlos Varea: carlos.varea@uam.es