In continuation of the activities of the cultural festival to raise awareness of the crimes of the Baath Party, the Department of Applied Geography at the College of Education for the Humanities organized a scientific symposium entitled “Draining the Marshes: Crimes and Victims”, in which the following professors lectured: (Asst. Prof. Zaid Kamil Jawad, Asst. Prof. Ali Kazim Jawad, Asst. Prof. Abbas Abdul Amir, Asst. Prof. Farqan Muhammad Abdul Majeed, and Asst. Prof. Karar Haider Mujed), in the presence of a group of academics and a delegation from the Directorate of Martyrs of Karbala and students.
The symposium aimed to shed light on the cultural heritage of the marshes, trace their geographical distribution, and present a sequential presentation of the stages of the crime of drying them, in addition to clarifying the results of the natural disasters caused by the crime of drying the marshes. The symposium included several topics, the most prominent of which were the theories of the emergence of the marshes, which were divided into seven theories, their geographical distribution in Iraq, and the stages of the crime of draining them, in addition to the effects of the crime of draining the marshes, which included (environmental, economic, and social effects).
