The 29th anniversary of the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in
Iran was observed in a ceremony in the presence of Mrs. Maryam
Rajavi, political and human rights dignitaries from the US and
Europe, and a large number of PMOI members in Tirana, capital of
Albania.
The Iranian Resistance’s
President-elect Maryam Rajavi pointed in her remarks to the
expansion of the movement calling for justice for the victims of the 1988
massacre among Iranians as well as human rights advocates from around the
world. She urged the UN Human Rights Council and the UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights to launch an international commission of inquiry to investigate
this horrendous crime. She called on the UN Security Council to refer this
dossier to the International Criminal Court or a special court to prosecute the
perpetrators of this crime against humanity, criminals who are presently among
the leaders of the clerical regime.
Mrs. Rajavi emphasized,
“How the international community approaches this genocide and this crime against
humanity is a litmus test of its adherence to the principles of human rights.
The prosecution and punishment of the perpetrators and masterminds of the 1988
massacre are the inalienable rights of human society, the people of Iran, and
the PMOI (MEK).
Mrs. Rajavi described
the admissions to this crime by the clerical regime officials – made in
reaction to the campaign calling for justice over the 1988 massacre – as being
among the most important evidences incriminating the regime’s leaders.
A
number of political and human rights personalities addressed this ceremony,
including Ms. Kerry Kennedy, daughter of the late Senator Robert Kennedy and
President of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation; Mr. Mariano Rabino,
member of the foreign affairs and human rights committees of the Parliament of
Italy; Senator Pietro Liuzzi, member of the cultural and EU policy committees
of the Italian Senate; Ms. Ingrid Betancourt, former senator from Columbia; and
Mr. Tahar Boumedra, former director of the Human Rights Office of UNAMI.
Mrs. Rajavi said
the growth and expansion of the campaign calling for justice dealt a major blow
to the mullahs’ religious dictatorship. She said, “This movement made the
regime to break its three decades of silence and try to justify this massive
slaughter. A number of the regime’s most disgraced murderers tried to defend
the massacre. This campaign also defeated Khamenei’s major political investment
in Ebrahim Raisi, a member of the Death
Commission in the 1988 massacre, to become president.”
Maryam Rajavi also
noted Rouhani’s choice of Justice Ministers. “In his first term, Hassan Rouhani
appointed Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, a member of the Death
Commission in Tehran, as his Justice Minister. Now, in his second term, he has
nominated as Minister of Justice another perpetrator of the massacre in
Khuzistan Province. The European Union has already designated and sanctioned
this man, Alireza Avaie, for being directly involved in violations of human
rights.”
The
Iranian Resistance’s President-elect announced the publication of a new edition
of the book titled, Crime against Humanity, which includes the names and
particulars of more than 5,000 PMOI martyrs as well as the pictures of hundreds
of victims and their graves.
She
said, “Owing to the valuable year-round activities of the Resistance’s network
inside Iran, in addition to the names and addresses of the graves of the
victims, we also have the names of 113 members of the Death Commissions in
Tehran and other provinces, nearly all of whom hold key positions in the
regime. We also have the names and particulars of 213 criminals who carried out
the death decrees in 35 cities as well as information about the locations of
several mass graves that had been previously hidden.”
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