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Article: Exodus from terror: Iraq's intellectuals, who had high hopes of a bright future in the post-Saddam era and should have been the country's salvation in the struggle to regroup and rebuild, are being driven out of their homeland by fear.(Iraq)
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- The Middle East
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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AT A RECENT CEREMONY IN NEW York, Abdul Al Latif Al Mayah, an Iraqi university professor and human rights activist, was awarded the Civil Courage Prize, "for steadfast resistance to evil at great personal risk", by the Northcote Parkinson Fund, a private US foundation that promotes political liberalism. The award was posthumous.
Mayah was riddled with bullets by eight hooded gunmen last year in Baghdad as he drove to his office at Mustansiriyah University. After forcing him to stop in a side street about a kilometre from his home, they dragged him from his car and while his driver and a university colleague watched helplessly, the gunmen shot him repeatedly.
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