University of Basra organizes a lecture on the defunct Baathist regime’s violations of intellectual rights and public freedoms

The College of Education for Girls, in the presence of Dr. Amal Muhammad Abdel Karim, Dean of the College, organized a lecture on the defunct Baathist regime’s violations of intellectual rights and public freedoms, presented by Dr. Fadi Yaqoub Youssef from the Geography Department.

The lecture aimed to explain the nature of this political regime and its brutality, which is similar to the Nazi regime in Germany, and the crimes it committed against its people, and to show the social and psychological effects that resulted from genocide, human rights violations, forced displacement, mass graves, the draining of the marshes, and others.

The lecture dealt with the Baathist regime’s violations of public rights and freedoms and social, political and cultural rights, with a presentation to the female students about the crimes of the Baath Party, including the 1991 Shaabaniya uprising and pictures of mass graves and the execution of students from Al-Kadhimiya Preparatory School.

The lecture also touched on the previous regime’s ingenuity in methods of torture and execution, such as cutting out tongues and physical mutilation, all of which contradicts the laws approved by international conventions and treaties to guarantee human rights and public freedoms.

The lecture concluded by saying that the required awareness must continue regarding the various crimes committed by the Baathist regime in Iraq during its rule, and the negative effects resulting from its rule from 1968 until 2003.