BRussells Tribunal

BRussells Tribunal

The B"Russell"s Tribunal refers both to a series of hearings taking place in Brussels, April 14-17, 2004, as part of the World Tribunal on Iraq, and to the group of people who organised these hearings.

The hearings focused on the programs and policies of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), its role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent occupation, and the role of the invasion and occupation of Iraq as part of the PNAC's program of military domination of the Earth. [http://www.brusselstribunal.org/Tribunal.htm]

Claim of assassination campaign against Iraqi academics

In January 2006, the B"Russell"s Tribunal distributed a statement (as part of a petition) supporting Robert Fisk's earlier, July 14, 2004 statement that "University staff suspect that there is a campaign to strip Iraq of its academics, to complete the destruction of Iraq's cultural identity which began when the American army entered Baghdad."

The B"Russell"s Tribunal claimed that violence against academics in post-invasion Iraq amounts to a systematic campaign to liquidate Iraqi academics, with the assassination of over 250 academics and disappearance of hundreds of others, was occurring. Combined with Iraqi academics leaving the country due to fear for their safety, the claim is that the Iraqi academic community was being literally destroyed, and that as of 2006, the campaign has not stopped.

While Robert Fisk cited some hypotheses of the groups behind the killings, the B"Russell"s Tribunal claimed that the wave of assassinations was "non-partisan and non-sectarian, targeting women as well as men, countrywide, indiscriminate of expertise: professors of geography, history and Arabic literature as well as science are among the dead."

According to the tribunal, no suspects have been apprehended in connection with the assassinations as of early 2006. The group note that "as an occupying power, and under international humanitarian law, the final responsibility for protecting Iraqi citizens, including academics, lies with the United States."

ee also

*Russell Tribunal

External links

* [http://www.brusselstribunal.org/Academics.htm B"Russell"s Tribunal: Iraqi Academics]
* [http://www.robert-fisk.com/articles414.htm Academics targeted as murder and mayhem hits Iraqi colleges] , Robert Fisk, July 14, 2004


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