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Media and Government Communication Division, Psychological Counseling and Educational Guidance Unit, and Student Activities Unit at College of Industrial Management for Oil and Gas/Basra University for Oil and Gas, in cooperation with the Martyrs Foundation in Basra, organized the first annual cultural festival to commemorate Iraqi martyrs and under the slogan (Martyrs are alive in the consciences of the people). The festival included a photographic exhibition on the crime of genocide of the Yazidis and other Iraqi components, and a pavilion of brochures and publications documenting the names of the martyrs and their biography, as well as the launch of a competition for the best student essay about the martyrs of Iraq and the martyrs of Palestine, and poetic poems about the martyrs of Iraq and about love for the homeland. The festival was opened with a verse of Holy Qur’an and a reciting of Surat Al-Fatihah on the souls of the martyrs of Iraq. A speech by the Dean of College of Industrial Management for Oil and Gas, Professor Dr. Sami O. Al-Tamimi, who stressed that festival comes in line with the directives of the Ministry, Department of Studies, Planning and Follow-up/Department of Studies and Planning, which include the Prime Minister’s directive regarding holding exhibitions documenting the crime of genocide against the Yazidis and other components, in commemoration of the victims and in implementation of the Yazidi Women Survivors Law. That festival also came as a practical implementation of the Baath Party’s crimes article which has become taught in all Iraqi universities and a demonstration of those facts that have left an impact on many families of Iraqi society. Then came the speech of the representative of Martyrs Foundation in Basra, Professor Maytham Hamid, who stressed that the Foundation seeks to immortalize the martyrs of Iraq through those activities, praising the role of the university in its openness and cooperation with the Foundation. In those areas, then came the poetry section, which presented poems by the poet Mounir Abbas, then a poem by the student Ahmed Adel Salem, which sang of love for the homeland and the martyrs, and then a documentary film about the crimes of genocide was shown, and the festival concluded by honoring the participants, especially the officials of the Martyrs Foundation, for their role in the success of the activities of this festival.
