Ahmed Abdul Ghafour al-Samarrai
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Sheik Ahmed Abdul Ghafour al-Samarrai was head of the head of the Sunni Endowments which cares for Sunni mosques and shrines in Iraq. He is a member of the Association of Muslim Scholars.
On February 21, 2007, he was fired by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki after al-Samarrai called for an international investigation into the rape allegations leveled by a Iraqi Sunni Arab woman Sabreen al-Janabi against three members of the Shiite-dominated Iraqi Security Forces.
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- "Also we kept on rejecting the role of the militias and their role in killing Iraqis. We hold the government and the prime minister responsible for all these actions but he seems to be unable to take responsibility."[1]
- "The Sunni Endowments strongly denounces this horrific crime and lets out a cry for help from the international community and human rights organizations, demanding that they launch an immediate investigation into this crime," [2]
- “Maliki is fed up with me talking about all the terrible things that are happening to Iraqis, whether it is killing, kidnappings or illegal arrests,” [3]
[edit] External links
- Iraqi Official Fired for Criticizing Maliki in Rape Case
- Al-Maliki fires Sunni official over rape case flap
- Iraqi Sunni Arab official dismissed
- Rape accusation highlights bitter divide
- Iraqi PM fires senior Sunni Arab official
- Top Sunni Official Fired Over Rape Case
- U.S. to Investigate Sunni Woman's Rape Allegations in Iraq
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