imperative for
urgent action by U.S., EU and UN to secure protection of Camp Liberty residents
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran:
On Sunday, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance,
called for an independent inquiry by United Nations on the rocket attacks and
massacre of Iranian refugees in Iraq. She said: It is four months now that the
Iraqi government and its master (Iranian regime) are doing their outmost to
cover up the reality of the September 1 massacre in Camp Ashraf. It is the
responsibility of United States and the European Union to urge United Nations
to conduct an independent inquiry and prevent stonewalling by Government of
Iraq. She warned that “U.S., UN and EU have complete responsibility for
anything that might happen to PMOI members in Camp Liberty” because U.S. has
the obligation and the capacity to transfer all PMOI members to America, but so
far has sidestepped from it.
She accentuated that abstention from urgent practical steps by U.S., EU and
UN to guarantee the safety and protection of Camp Liberty residents, only
emboldens the mullahs and their puppet government in Iraq to repeat their
atrocities against the defenseless residents of Liberty on a much larger scale.
President-elect of the Iranian Resistance was speaking at the National
Council of Resistance Headquarters near Paris to a great ceremony in
commemoration of the most recent rocket attack victims of Camp Liberty where
close to 3000 members of People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) are
living in Iraq.
Camp Liberty was targeted by dozens of missiles and rockets on December 26
that killed four defenseless residents who were ‘protected persons’ by the
Geneva conventions and injured another seventy. This camp that is situated in a
protected area of Baghdad Airport was attacked by Maliki’s elements at the
behest of the Iranian regime. So far, 38 rocket impact points have been
identified. Some of the rockets were 280 mm with a destructive power 20 times
that of 107 mm rockets.
French personalities, including elected officials from Val d’Oise Province
such as Jean-Pierre Béquet, mayor of Auvers-sur-Oise and member of provincial
council, and dignitaries such as honorary governor and former head of DST Yves
Bonnet, former UN Chief of Human Rights Office in Iraq Tahar Boumedra, and
religious personalities such as Bishop Gaillot; Sheikh Khalil Merroun, head of
d'Evry Mosque; Abderrahmane Dahmane, President of Council of Muslim Democrats
of France; and a great number of Iranians and supporters of resistance from
throughout Europe participated in this ceremony. Speakers reminded the explicit
commitments by the international community, U.S., EU and UN. They emphasized
that any political considerations in this issue are immoral, indefensible and
tantamount to participation in the crime. In particular, they called on France
to launch an initiative at the Security Council for protection of Camp Liberty
residents and launching an inquiry into the Ashraf massacre.
Rajavi called on the international community, in particular the U.S., EU,
UN and the UN Security Council to adopt urgent measures to save the lives of
these defenseless asylum-seekers. Among such measures she enumerated minimum
security provision in Camp Liberty, immediate release of the seven Ashraf
hostages, conducting a comprehensive, independent, transparent and impartial
probe into the September 1 atrocity in Ashraf and the December 26 attack on
Liberty by United Nations, abandoning political considerations and transferring
asylum-seekers in Camp Liberty, especially the injured and the ailing, to
European countries or United States.
The rocket attack on Camp Liberty was carried out while on September 1,
fifty-two Iranian refugees in Iraq were mass executed by Iraqi government
forces at the behest of the Iranian regime and seven were taken hostage.
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