BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi activists on social networking sites circulated a video of a college graduation ceremony at a college in the southern Iraqi province of Dhi Qar, where Republican peace is being played for the ousted Baath Party, which ruled the country before the 2003 US invasion.
The University of Dhi Qar rushed to evacuate its responsibility for the incident, asserting that the owner of the office organizing the party is responsible and is currently in detention.
University President Riad Shantha said Republican peace was already playing at the graduation ceremony of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Dhi Qar, which was held two days ago in the hall of the local administration hall in Nasiriyah.
He stressed that the university was not aware of the organization of the ceremony and did not give him a license and does not bear any legal responsibility, and that such matters rests with the owner of the office that organizes the party, which was arrested by the police for interrogation.
The security authorities in Dhi Qar seized sweets stuffed with pictures of paper currency bearing the image of the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, and arrested two people in possession of a quantity of those sweets coated with Saddam.
This comes months after a group of students from Anbar University in western Iraq hand-painted the image of Saddam Hussein during an internal ceremony, prompting the university administration to dismiss three students permanently, and punish others by separating them for one academic year.
It is noteworthy that the lifting of any slogans or images of the poles of the former Iraqi regime is a promotion of the "Baath party" banned in Iraq, and punishable by law.