Iran's Death Commissions exposed:
30000 massacre after Ayatollah Khomeini's fawa
National Council for Resistance has
called for those involved to face prosecution at the UN.
The Iranian resistancehas released the names of senior members of the
country's current regime that
it says were involved in the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners. The People's
Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) has investigated and documented the
names of 59 people currently holding high office in Iranian political
institutions who it believes had a hand in the brutal killings.
The PMOI's
investigation comes following growing demands for members of the Iranian regime
to face prosecution over their role in the massacre.
It followed a fatwa
from the country's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini to execute political
prisoners.
Death Commissions were formed in Tehran and around thecountry, culminating in the killing of up to 30,000 political prisoners – some
of whom were teenagers – and their burial in mass graves.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) read out
the names of those it found were involved in the massacre at a press conference
today (6 September).
Mohammad Mohaddessin, chair of the foreign affairs committee
of the NCRI, has called for the United Nations to set up a commission of
inquiry into the massacre.
He said the UN must
"take the necessary steps to bring the perpetrators of this great crime to
justice," adding: "The impunity must end. Inaction in the face
of this crime has not only led to further executions in Iran, but has also
encouraged the regime to spread its crimes to Syria, Iraq and other countries
of the region.
"Some
2,700 executions have been officially carried out in Iran since (President)
Rouhani took office. Just several weeks ago some 25 Sunnis from Iranian
Kurdistan were hanged en masse in a single day, and several days later another
three political prisoners from Ahvaz were executed."
- More then
30,000 political prisonners were massacred in Iran in the summer of 1988
- The
massacre was carried out on the basis of a fatwa by Khomeini.
- The vast
majority of the victims were activists of the opposition PMOI (MEK).
- A Death
Committee approved all the death sentences.
- Mostafa
Pour-Mohammadi, a member of the Death Committee, is today Hassan Rouhani’s
Justice Minister
- The
perpetrators of the 1988 massacre have never been brought to justice.
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