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Madrid International Seminar on the Assassination of Iraqi Academics
and Health Professionals
22-23 April 2006
US policy in Iraq: A War Launched
to Erase both the Culture
and Future of the
Iraqi people
• Saturday 22 April 2006: Public Session
• Sunday 23 April 2006: International Meeting on Iraq Solidarity
The
Association of Iraqi Academics estimates that more than 180 academics, from a
wide range of academic
and scientific fields of study from all over Iraq, have
been being assassinated since the US invasion in 2003.
Many hundreds more have
been forced into exile. Most were high-level academic staff members. The
Spanish Campaign Against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty
of Iraq (CEOSI)
has confirmed 141 names of targeted academics (http://nodo50.org/iraq/). The BRussells
Tribunal has a confirmed list of 218 killed Iraqi academics (http://www.brusselstribunal.org/academicsList.htm) .
In
addition, according to official Iraqi sources, 311 teachers of both sexes have
been killed in Iraq during the last four months alone (The Independent, 29 March, 2006).
Equally,
staff of the National Iraqi Medical System — a model of civic courage during
15 years of sanctions,
war and occupation — are being targeted in a
campaign of extortion, threats and murder.
In violation of the foundations of
international humanitarian law, Iraqi hospitals and clinics are being attacked
and systematically raided by US occupation forces.
Occupation is responsible for these killings.
Every week more evidence emerges of a deliberate criminal campaign conducted by death squads
and encouraged by those who want to erase all secular and qualified layers of Iraqi society:
academics, scientists, professionals and intellectuals;
women and men who would be the foundation of the rebuilding of a democratic and non-sectarian society
in a free and sovereign Iraq following the end of occupation.
Within the framework of the conclusions of the World Tribunal on Iraq, CEOSI, The BRussells
Tribunal and the New York-based International Action Center (IAC),
will convene
an international seminar on the assassination of Iraqi academics and health
professionals in Madrid,
Saturday
22 April 2006.
On Sunday 23 April will follow an international
meeting of both European and US organizations with the purpose of encouraging
international solidarity with Iraq.
- journalist
and writer, former director of Occupation Watch
- Abdulah, professor of molecular genetics, University of
Baghdad
- Dr Sami
Wasfi FRCS, expert in cardiothoracic surgery. Dr Wasfi was the target of a failed assassination attempt
- Dr
Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar, engineer, leading voice in the
anti-sanctions movement
Dirk BRussells
Tribunal and organizer of the World Tribunal on BRussells Tribunal
In addition, we are pleased to highlight the
presence of two of the most eminent Spanish experts on the Arab world: Professor
Pedro Martínez Montávez
(Occupation and Sectarianism in Iraq) and Joaquín Córdoba Zoilo, lecturer at the Universidad Autónoma
de Madrid (The Plundering of World Heritage in Iraq).
The meeting will be opened by the Chancellor of Universidad Autónoma
de Madrid, Mr Ángel Gabilondo, and will be closed by Ms Rosa Regás, Director of The National Library, and by Mr Pedro Martinez
Lillo,
Vice Chancellor for University Cooperation.
Organizers
Spanish Campaign Against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (CEOSI)
The
BRussells
Tribunal
and International Action Center
With the cooperation of
Universidad Autónoma
de Madrid (UAM)
And support of
Escuela
Julián Besteiro and The National Library
Place
Escuela Julián Besterio, Calle Azcona, 53
How
to get there
Subway/Metro: "Parque de Las
Avenidas"
(Line 7), "Diego León"
(Lines 4, 5 and 6) and
"Ventas" (Line 2)
Buses: From
"Callao" (Nos. 21, 53 and 74), from "Manuel Becerra"
(No. 48)
Opening
(Saturday): 10:30 am
Entrance free
/ Simultaneous translation
Further
information
www.iraqsolidaridad.org / iraq@nodo50.org
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