December 18, 2013

EL TIEMPO (Spain): Spanish National Court investigating two attacks by Iraqi forces against Ashraf refugee camp in Iraq

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Judge Fernando Andreu Spanish National Court investigating two attacks by Iraqi forces against Ashraf refugee camp in Iraq housing Iranian dissidents , resulting in 87 people dead.
12/17/2013 4:50 PM Spanish Court investigates attacks that killed 87 refugees in Iraq

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Madrid - . The Spanish judge Fernando Andreu National Court investigating two attacks by Iraqi forces against Ashraf refugee camp in Iraq housing Iranian dissidents , resulting in 87 people dead.

The complaint refers to 1 attack last September by Iraqi military and police forces , in which 52 people died, and another committed on April 8, 2011 , in which 35 people died.

By universal jurisdiction, the Spanish court accepted investigate the case following the complaint filed by attorney Juan Garcés representing two victims and the Iranian opposition organization " Mojahedin Khalq " ( fighters village), located in Diyala province ( the northeast of Baghdad ) and other victims .

In a self dated 21 November, the judge agreed to hear a complaint against the expansion of the national security adviser for Iraq, Faleh al Fayad , responsible for the refugee camp , protected by the Fourth Geneva Convention.

Two victims complainants claim that Al- Fayad took command of the field in May 2010 , when he moved to chair the " Committee for Ashraf ," the Office of the Prime Minister of Iraq , Al Maliki , and since then had knowledge of everything was happening there , including " dead, wounded , acoustic bombardment , food and health deprivation."

"In the civil and military hierarchy is primarily responsible for the operation of the April 8, 2011 ," say prosecutors , explaining that day Al- Fayad not authorized the UN to go to the site to see what was happening .

Throughout 2012 and 2013 , continuing the members of this committee , " have forced the forced displacement of most of the residents of Ashraf , against their will, under threat of further massacres , a barren abandoned military base near Baghdad , known as 'Camp Liberty' " .

As the attack of September this year , the complainants explain that military forces that occupied the camp " allowed the cold-blooded murder of 52 residents " who had status under the Geneva Conventions and seven others were kidnapped , without knowing where they are.

The UN has asked twice to the Iraqi Government to conduct a credible investigation into the attack against Iranian refugees camp , which housed in the 60s to refugee mujahideen .

In the order , Judge Andreu believed that these events could constitute grave breaches of the Geneva Convention , namely willful killing, torture or inhuman treatment, and gives transfer to Iraqi authorities for the admissibility forwarding you to the complaint Al- Fayad .

Speaking to EFE , John Garcés reported that the Ashraf refugee camp " situation is under permanent attack since January 2009," after the U.S. cede control of the area to Iraqi forces .

In July of the same year there was another major attack Ashraf , in which 36 people, according to the lawyer who noted that the Spanish National Court is the only court that investigates these crimes died.
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