196 professors killed, more than 100 kidnapped since U.S. invasion

Since the 2003 U.S. invasion 196 university professors have been killed and more than 100 abducted, said Minister of Higher Education Abduldhiyab al-Aujaili.

He said the ministry has almost lost hope for the return of those who had been abducted and the violence targeting Iraqi universities has terrorized faculty members.

“Houses of hundreds of professors have been stormed and hundreds of them have been arrested though later most of them were released,” he said.

The rising violence has forced ‘thousands’ of Iraqi professors to flee the country, he said.

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