Were the assassinated academics Baathists?
They were educators. Being a Baathist or not a Baathist is not criteria for the BRussells Tribunal to defend Iraqi academics. In reality, the term de-Baathification is a war slogan used by the US and its allies in a bid to destroy the Iraqi national state its administrative apparatus, public services, properties, archives, registries of public and private ownership, natural resources, revenues and reserves (leading Iraq to the brink of economic collapse and abject poverty) as well as its economic foundations, laws and judicial system, museums, libraries, army and police, health and education systems, art, print media, radio and television, etc. This destruction is not a consequence of war but rather a studied plan prepared before the invasion. Strictly speaking, and according to definition under international law, this destruction is genocide. The liquidation of Iraqi academics has nothing to do with them being Baathist or not. It follows from the imperial character of the invasion of
