The appeal was issued recently by the world's intellectual and academic community.
Despite numerous censorship filters, international news agencies report daily about destruction in Iraq, but they keep silent about the systematic destruction of the Iraqi cultural and intellectual elite and academic community, PEN Centre Croatia says.
Two hundred and fifty university professors have been killed, many hundreds have gone missing and thousands of intellectuals have left the country, it is stated in the appeal.
Eighty-four percent of institutions of higher education in Iraq have been burnt down or completely destroyed, according to UN data.
Responsibility for the events rests primarily with the United States and countries supporting its totalitarian policy towards Iraq, which is void of any sense or idea how to launch real democratic processes which Iraq needs. The United States is a super power which has toppled the dangerous regime of Saddam Hussein and occupied the country, without creating mechanisms to bring it closer to acceptable democratic standards, PEN Centre Croatia says.
The international appeal for Iraq was launched by Noam Chomsky and a number of the world's leading intellectuals.