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Annex V: Attacks on Professors, Teachers and Students The following incidents have been reported since April 2006: • 13 February 2007: Up to 16 people are reported to have been killed and 27 wounded after a suicide bomber detonated explosives in a van near the College of Economic Sciences in Baghdad. 945 • 1 February 2007: Gunmen broke into the Physical Education College of Diyala in Baqouba and killed the Dean, Walhan Hamed Al-Rubaie. 946 • 29 January 2007: A law student, Ali Abdul-Mutalib Al-Hashimi, and three professors, Adnan Al-Abid, Abdel Muttaleb Al-Hashemi and Amer Al-Qaissi were abducted from Nahrein University in Baghdad as they were leaving the university in the Khadimiyah District. Their bodies were found in Baghdad’s central morgue three days later. 947 • 23 January 2007: Shi’ite professor and economist Diya Al-Meqoter was shot dead in Baghdad’s Adhamiya neighbourhood. He was widely known for his programme on Sharqiya television channel during which he interviewed a group of poor people who presented their ideas for starting a small business. He was teaching economics at the Al- Mustansiriya University and also headed the Consumer Association. 948 • 22 January 2007: Gunmen killed a female teacher on her way to work at a girls’ school in the mainly Sunni neighbourhood of Khadra in western Baghdad. 949 • 17 January 2007: At least 70 people, including students and teachers, were killed and more than 170 others injured as a suicide bomber and a car bomb exploded at the entrance of Al-Mustansiriya University in east Baghdad. 950 • 21 December 2006: Dr. Muntather Mohammed Al-Hamadani, the Assistant Dean at the Faculty of Law at Al-Mustansiriya University and Dr. Ali Jassam, were assassinated by unknown gunmen in Al-Slaikh area. • 11 December 2006: Gunmen kidnapped five teachers of one primary school near Al- Dijeel village. 951 • 5 December 2006: Professor Abdul Hameed Al-Harith, the head of the Psychological and Educational Studies Office in Baghdad University, was killed in central Baghdad on his way to work. 952 945 Al Jazeera, Bomber strikes near Baghdad college, 13 February 2007, http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/ exeres/0627A091-AB98-45A0-8A03-28AA4B4F110D.htm. 946 Reuters Alertnet, Factbox – Security developments in Iraq, Feb 1, 1 February 2007, http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSYAT15750720070201. 947 AP, Bodies of three Sunni professors and a student found, three days after their abduction, 31 January 2007, http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/January/focusoniraq _January208.xml&section=focusoniraq. 948 AP, Professor and economist who helped the poor is shot dead in Baghdad, 23 January 2007, http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/23/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-Professor-Killed.php. 949 CBS / AP, Deadly Day Claims 100 Iraqis, 22 January 2007, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/ 22/iraq/main2381540.shtml. 950 BBC News, Bombers rock Baghdad university, see above footnote 574. 951 UNAMI HRO, December 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 16, see above footnote 10. 952 DPA, Security official, academic killed in Baghdad, 7 December 2006, http://news.monstersandcritics. com/middleeast/news/article_1230649.php/Security_official_academic_killed_in_Baghdad. 188
• 5 December 2006: Dr. Mohammed Haidar Sulaiman, a professor in the Physical Education Faculty of one of Baghdad’s universities, was assassinated by unknown gunmen. 953 • 20 November 2006: Insurgents killed the President of the Scientific Department of Mosul University and the Director of the Registration Department of the College of Education in Kirkuk University. 954 • 2 November 2006: Gunmen killed Jassim Al-Asadi, the Dean of Baghdad University’s School of Administration and Economics. 955 • November 2006: The body of Dr. Najdat Al-Salihi, a psychology professor at Al- Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, was found after his disappearance three weeks earlier. 956 • 30 October 2006: Unknown gunmen killed Dr. Essam Al-Rawi, Professor in the Geology Department of the University of Baghdad, head of the Professor’s Union and a senior member of the Association of Muslim Scholars as he was leaving his Baghdad home. 957 • 21 August 2006: A teacher was killed by gunmen in Balad Ruz, about 50 kilometres east of Baqouba. 958 • 21 June 2006: Gunmen killed the dean of the Abdullah Bin Om Kalthoum School in Al-Zubayr, in Basrah, during the final examinations. He was reportedly killed in front of his students. 959 • 19/20 June 2006: A group of armed men, allegedly from the Ministry of Interior, attacked the students’ dormitory at the University of Kufa during the night. According to information received by UNAMI HRO, the men beat the students severely and shot inside the premises, wounding some of the students and destroying property. Tens of students were reportedly arrested and tortured after the incident. 960 • 18 June 2006: On 18 June, gunmen killed Modhaer Zayed Al-Dabagh, a lecturer in the Computer College of Mosul University, in front of the Ministry of Interior in Baghdad. 961 • 16 June 2006: Sheikh Yousif Al-Hussein, Dean of Al-Hassan Al-Basri School, was killed in Basrah. 962 • 15 June 2006: Qasim Yousif Yacoub, a lecturer at Basrah University, was killed. 963 953 UNAMI HRO, December 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 16, see above footnote 10. 954 Ibid. 955 AP, Baghdad University dean is assassinated, 2 November 2006, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/ 15525444/. 956 Bryan Bender and Farah Stockman, Iraq’s violent “brain drain” called a threat to future, The Boston Globe, 30 November 2006, http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2006/11/30/iraqs_violent_brain_ drain_called_a_threat_to_future/. 957 Aparisim Ghosh, Baghdad Bulletin: Death Stalks the Campus, Time Magazine, 2 November 2006, http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1553793,00.html. 958 CNN, Attacks kill at least 10 Iraqis, 21 August 2006, http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/ 08/21/iraq.main/. 959 UNAMI HRO, June 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 6, see above footnote 27. 960 Ibid. 961 Ibid. 962 Ibid. 963 UNAMI HRO, June 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 6, see above footnote 27. 189
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A. Current Situat
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and gatherings, Shi’ite religious
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Article 140 of the Constitution cal
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the Middle East in terms of women
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Al-Sunna. In addition, members of t
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military commander in Iraq, General
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to Osama Bin Laden, the Shi’ites
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Ninewa Plains in particular have be
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an international court. 261 Several
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prohibition to kill, lie, commit ad
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Mandaeans as belonging to the “Pe
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have found refuge with the Sabaean-
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government offices, 441 and changin
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security, of transferring hundreds
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2. Roma (Kawliyah) 461 a) Introduct
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Ghraib and was known for its strong
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CPA began to allow some vetted ex-B
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een killed in Iraq and another 491
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Acts committed against employees or
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E. Government Officials and Other P
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3. Persons Opposing the Ruling Part
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3,250 professors had fled Iraq sinc
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inside the media compound, refrain
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groups for not giving priority to t
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after their release. 660 UNAMI HRO
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evidence that over forty people had
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V. ELIGIBILITY FOR INTERNATIONAL PR
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violence on a daily basis. Ordinary
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