The plight of Iraqi Academics
Genocide is being committed against Iraqi academics, scholars and the teaching
profession in general.
Cara,www.academic-refugees.orgthe British council for assisting refugee academics organized a
solidarity meeting on 29 November at UCL with
Iraqi academics and pledged £100,000 to support Iraqi academics. Cara
told the meeting that over 200 hundred Iraqi scholars have so far been
murdered by the forces of darkness.
The General Secretary of Cara pledged to look at
recommendations that were suggested by the panellists and the
audience. Among these recommendations is that Cara will contact the
Iraqi Teachers'
Union and seek their advice on the current situation.
The suggestion came a result of the GFIW representative's intervention
in which he called on the meeting and Cara to contact the Iraqi teachers
union, as they are on the front line and have close contact with the Iraqi
teaching community and to seek their views and suggestions of how best
Cara can help.
The panel chair Mrs Anne M Lonsdale, President of New Hall, Deputy Vice
Chancellor of Cambridge University noted the suggestion and said
they will do what ever they can to contact the Iraqi Teachers' Union and
for this matter involve the British teaching unions especially those
in the university sector.
The TUC and its affiliated teachers unions have led a solidarity
campaign to assists Iraqi teachers (please see the TUC statement
condemning the recent kidnapping at the institute of higher education
last month in Baghdad)