Iraq’s “Baath Eradication” in Scientific Research Ministry unimplemented complexly, Minister says

NAJAF / IraqiNews.com: Iraq ’s Minister of Higher Education & Scientific Research has stressed on Friday that the so-called Questioning & Justice Law, practiced against activists of Iraq ’s former ruling Baath Party, “was not implemented in full, in order to build a generation free from the Saddamist Baath thought.”   His expression ‘Saddamist’ points out for Iraq ’s former President Saddam Hussein, who used to hold the post of the Secretary-General of Iraq’s former ruling Arab Baath Socialist Party (ABSP).   “The Questioning & Justice Law was not practiced in the Ministry of Higher Education & Scientific Research, and we have discovered that there is still a number of those covered by the (Baath) eradication, discharge and pensioning, are still present in the Education,” Minister Ali al-Adib told IraqiNews.com news agency.   The Minister said that “his Ministry shall practice the Questioning & Justice Law, in order to build a generation, free from the Saddamist Baath thought,” adding that “education shares in educating generations, and thee can’t be place for the remnants of the former regime’s thought in our (Iraqi) universities.”   Noteworthy is that the Law on Questioning & Justice was issued shortly after the downfall of the former Baath regime, led by former President Saddam Hussein, after Iraq’s invasion by the U.S.-led forces in March, 2003.   The law had sacked large numbers of former Baath Party leaders, activists and members, from different government, Army, security and police posts, along with universities and other state organizations.   SKH (RT)     558