The Human Rights Unit and the Women’s Affairs Unit at the College of Engineering, in cooperation with the Iraqi Academics Syndicate, Diwaniyah Branch, organized a workshop entitled “Genocide and Its Impact on Contemporary Iraqi History – The Memory of Mass Graves.” The workshop was held in the Graduate Studies Discussion Hall. Assistant Professor Dr. Nabil Shalal Thamer, Assistant Professor Nadia Kazim Awad, and Assistant Professor Israa Riyad Al-Ghara presented the workshop. The workshop highlighted the social, political, and religious factors behind the genocide; the psychological and social effects of the genocide in Iraq; genocide in light of the ideology justifying violence and terrorism; the spatial distribution of genocide victim graves and their relationship to the ethnic and sectarian affiliations of the victims; the history of genocide in Iraq, the Arab region, and the world; and comparative historical and archaeological studies. It also documented the crimes committed by terrorist gangs and the massacres perpetrated by the former regime, and highlighted mass graves in Iraq.



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