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Iraq: The IMF Case

The Iraq Memory Foundation, a U.S.-based non-governmental organization (NGO), went to Baghdad shortly after the invasion and began gathering as many documents as it could find. Under the laws of war, such actions may be considered an act of pillage, which is specifically forbidden by the 1907 Hague Convention. The Foundation’s website says its main holdings are “a collection of 2.4 million pages of official Iraqi documents captured by Iraqi Kurdish groups during the 1991 uprising; …a collection of 750,000 pages of Iraqi documents captured in Kuwait after its liberation…in 1991; …approximately 3.0 million pages gathered from Baath Party Regional Command Headquarters in Baghdad following the fall of Saddam in 2003.” This is the body of materials that in January 2008 the Hoover Institution at Stanford University agreed to store.
http://www.archivists.org/statements/IraqiRecords.asp

Open letter from Saad Eskander, Director of the Iraq National Library and Archives to the Director of Hoover Institute, June 21, 2008
http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=439

Website of the Iraq Memory Foundation
http://www.iraqmemory.org/EN

News article on the conflict:
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/june18/iraq-061808.html


OpenEdition schlägt Ihnen vor, diesen Beitrag wie folgt zu zitieren:
Klaus Graf (22. Juni 2008). Iraq: The IMF Case. Archivalia. Abgerufen am 9. November 2025 von https://doi.org/10.58079/bxxa


Autor: Klaus Graf

Historiker und Archivar, Blogger

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