Iraq's Baath Party archive location unknown
The United States last month shipped a historic archive of Baath regime documents to Iraq, but the government is keeping mum about its location and fate, given the political sensitivity of the documents.
The government of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi is treating the Baath Party archives that supposedly arrived in Iraq in late August with complete confidentiality.
Despite media reports Aug. 31 about the arrival in Baghdad of tons of documents relating to one of the darkest periods in the history of Iraq, the Iraqi government has yet to issue an official statement announcing their fate or how it will be dealing with the papers.
Hisham Daoud, one of the government’s most prominent advisers and sometimes its media spokesperson, told Al-Monitor, “I, unfortunately, do not have any information about this dossier.”
Daoud referred Al-Monitor to the Iraqi Embassy in Washington or to one of the Washington-based researchers who previously worked on the Baath archive. He also suggested asking the Ministry of Culture about the documents.
