{"id":25261,"date":"2021-08-26T07:41:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T05:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=25261"},"modified":"2021-08-26T07:41:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T05:41:40","slug":"investigation-of-irans-1988-massacre-is-necessary-says-un-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/articles\/2021\/08\/investigation-of-irans-1988-massacre-is-necessary-says-un-report\/25261\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation of Iran\u2019s 1988 Massacre Is Necessary, Says UN Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The National Council of Resistance of Iran<\/a> (NCRI) wrote<\/a> on August 24 that the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran, Javaid Rehman expressed concerns, in a report to the United Nations General Assembly, in regards to the attempts made by the regime to destroy evidence of the 1988 massacre<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NCRI said<\/a>, \u201cIn the summer of 1988, the Iranian regime extrajudicially executed over 30,000 political prisoners<\/a>. Most of the victims were members and supporters of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK<\/a>).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his report, Rehman explained how in April of this year, regime authorities denied permission for Baha\u2019i\u2019s people to bury their dead in empty plots at Golestan Javid, a cemetery that was originally designated for their use. Instead, they have been forced to bury their dead between existing graves, or at a mass gravesite in Khavaran, which is said to be where the remains of the 1988 massacre<\/a> victims are buried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UN Expert\u2019s Report Underlines the Necessity of Investigating the 1988 Massacre in Iran<\/sup><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

He said that this latest order is yet another attempt to interfere with the evidence of executions of the political prisoners from that fateful summer. Other attempts to hide or destroy evidence have included harassing relatives of the victims to frighten them into submission, or by bulldozing other gravesites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NCRI <\/a>said, \u201cIn December 2020, a letter originally sent to the regime officials in September by seven U.N. human rights experts<\/a>, including Mr. Rehman, was published. In their letter, the U.N. experts underlined that the 1988 massacre<\/a> \u2018may amount to crimes against humanity\u2019.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The experts said that the failure of the international community to hold the regime officials to account for the atrocities that occurred in the summer of 1988 has had a \u2018devastating impact\u2019 on the \u2018general human rights situation\u2019 in Iran. Examples of just how devastating the impact has been included the regime\u2019s slaughter of over 1500 protesters<\/a> in the November 2019 uprising, the ongoing and ever-increasing number of executions in Iran, as well as the level of oppression that protesters faced at recent demonstrations in Khuzestan <\/a>province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NCRI said, \u201cIn June, the systematic impunity reached its climate when the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, selected Ebrahim Raisi<\/a> as the regime\u2019s new president. Raisi played a key role in the 1988 massacre, was the regime\u2019s Judiciary Chief during the November 2019 protests<\/a>, and oversaw the arrest and systematic human rights violations in Iranian prisons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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