This made him the first Iraqi ambassador to serve in Belarus since the Iraqi Embassy shut down in 2003 and only the third Iraqi ambassador in history to serve in Belarus.
Throughout our history male dominated governments have oppressed women, denied their humanity, burnt them at the stake, hanged them for daring to preach, jailed them for daring to demand the vote, and in some cases even killed them from force feeding or other brutalities.
He was given the role in October 2014 and still holds it.
He used words, not guns.
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