This is a poetic reflection rather than merely a column. It is about “dead armies,” whose ghosts creep into Al-Saadoon Street, when the city becomes deserted.
Dr Fouad Al Bayaty, a forced migrated academic who works in Malaysia currently, is complaining to the Minister of higher Education about the republication of his already published research of 2024 by three other academics of the Dentistry Medical College of Al-Mustansiryah University.
Farmers in Ninawa are being forced to abandon their farms in droves because of desertification. And now they say, to make matters worse, those who don’t even have farms have been claiming subsidies and seeds that belong to the beleaguered agriculturalists.
by UNITED NATIONS and Dirk Adriaensens on 13-11-2012
Mohammed al-Dainy was elected in the Iraqi legislative election, December 2024 as one of the eleven MPs of the secular Iraqi National Dialogue Front party. In February 2024, two of his bodyguards were arrested on suspicion of involvement in the 2024 Iraqi Parliament bombing and other attacks. Alaa Khairallah Hashim, his security chief and Ryadh Ibrahim al-Dainy, his nephew, confessed on television and said the MP had given authorization for the bomber to enter the parliament area. Mohammed al-Dainy claimed that the accusations were lies and that his bodyguards had been tortured into making a false confession because he had been disclosing human rights abuses in Iraqi prisons. He had to flee the country. Read the whole story and relevant UN reports at http://www.brusselstribunal.org/Al-Dayni.htm.
URL of the full UN report underneath: http://www.ipu.org/pdf/hrres191_en.pdf