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| PUK paper: Iraq must seek the return of its educated exiles |
| 2004-06-05 |
| By Abdul Hadi Mahdi (Al-Ittihad, 31 May 04) – Iraq is full of holders of advanced degrees in different specialties, who were oppressed and replaced by the yes-men of the former regime who got their degrees as gifts from the deposed president regardless of the scientific procedures followed by international universities in awarding higher degrees. Then the elite cadres were deposed under Saddam because they did not comply with his doctrines. Some were imprisoned and others left Iraq. But after the fall of the regime, none of them has returned to Iraq despite the fact they are badly needed here. The incoming government should seriously study the reasons behind that because the educated are counted as the capital of the new Iraq, and their absence abroad will mean a huge national loss. The Ministry of Higher Education must take quick action to get those people back home and make use of them at a time when they are being given many bonuses by other states to keep them at their universities. (Al-Ittihad is published daily by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.) |
| Posted by:Super Hose |