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By: Ingrid Betancourt, Former Columbian senatorSource: French language Swiss daily Tribune de Gen\u00e8ve, March 12, 2013<\/p>\n
By: Ingrid Betancourt, Former Columbian senator
Source: French language Swiss daily Tribune de Gen\u00e8ve, March 12, 2013<\/p>\n
\u201cMartin Kobler wouldn\u2019t go to the camp and said there is no security\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n When on February 9th dozens of rockets hit a prison near Baghdad which is ironically called Camp Liberty, around one hundred Iranian dissidents were wounded and a number of others killed. In addition to the bodies, the UN\u2019s credibility must also be counted as among the victims of this attack.<\/p>\n The rockets not only pierced the trailers in which these Iranian dissidents have been forced to station in, but also shattered the myth that claimed the UN Special Representative to the Secretary-General in Iraq, Martin Kobler, is an efficient person. Following this horrific massacre, it has been ruthlessly clarified that there is no security in Liberty.<\/p>\n During the past three years I have followed up the fate of these Iranian dissidents. Around 3,000 Liberty residents are members of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization, Iran\u2019s main opposition movement. They are a part of a coalition led by Mrs. Rajavi that defends the rights of Iranians to live under a secular and democratic government.<\/p>\n An insurgent group at Iran\u2019s service assumed responsibility for this attack. However, this attack could not have taken place without Baghdad\u2019s cooperation.<\/p>\n In the beginning of 2012 the dissidents were forced, under threats, to evacuate Ashraf, a modern city which they had built in the course of past 26 years, and relocated to Camp Liberty, a destroyed American base. The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention described this camp as a prison.<\/p>\n Kobler has given this inhumane relocation a judicial status by signing an agreement in the name of the UN. The given reason by Kobler was that this guarantees their security and the UN will assure that. This became a nefarious prank during the February 9th attack when Kobler wasn\u2019t willing to go to the site, saying there is no security.<\/p>\n The dissidents had warned the camp lacks any of the necessary infrastructures. The problem is that the UN is suffering from blindness. The attack against an unarmed group which seeks political asylum is a clear sign of the mullahs\u2019 hopelessness, resembling the final era of their rule. They fear the power of the unarmed PMOI members that have been placed in Camp Liberty because the PMOI is spread throughout Iran. Liberty has become a killing field. We cannot remain silent and witness the implementation of a plot of carnage the Iranian government has planned against these innocent people, in complicity with their Iraqi allies.<\/p>\n As the UN envoy, Kobler has betrayed the trust he was given and ashamed his mission. The time has come for the UN to take the right decisions: Kobler must be removed and an inquiry initiated. The refugees must be returned to Ashraf, the UN High Commission for Refugees through its mission must consider its most important efforts as guaranteeing the residents\u2019 security, and the international community must bring an end to their suffering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By: Ingrid Betancourt, Former Columbian senatorSource: French language Swiss daily Tribune de Genève, March 12, 2013 “Martin Kobler wouldn’t go to the camp and said there is no security” When […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[175],"class_list":{"0":"post-13088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ashraf-liberty","8":"tag-updated"},"yoast_head":"\n