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NCRI – America must urge Iraq to release the seven hostages taken captive during the Camp Ashraf massacre when 52 Iranian dissidents members of the People’s Moajhedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) were shot dead at point blank range, Former French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner has demanded.<\/p>\n
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay must then launch a full investigation into the atrocity to bring those responsible to justice, Mr Kouchner told an international conference in Geneva on September 19.<\/p>\n
It was the US that brought Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki to power, Mr Kouchner said, but al-Maliki was now doing the bidding of the Iranian regime as the situation in Iraq deteriorated from ‘crime to massacre’.<\/p>\n
He said in a speech: “It is a state crime. It is a crime of the prime minister and he must be charged.<\/p>\n
“And if the Americans have some honor, they would require that the seven hostages, six women and coincidentally a man, be released and certainly not given to Iran because this would then be the ultimate contradiction.<\/p>\n
“So letting the prime minister installed by the Americans to act on behalf of Iraq to kill and deliver people protected by UN, I think it would be a rare and massive stupidity committed by humans.<\/p>\n
“The problem is that this expression of barbarism, this ultimate barbarism, has happened in Camp Ashraf and the threats are real.”<\/p>\n
Mr Kouchner said Camp Liberty was not adequately protected and back Iranian resistance president-elect Maryam Rajavi’s call for UN blue helmet soldiers to be based permanently at the camp.<\/p>\n
He added: “It is imperative that each government be urged to demonstrate a reaction. Americans should be told. The United Nations should be told.<\/p>\n
“And above all, we need to act immediately before it is too late to prevent the extradition of these seven which would be an evil gesture.<\/p>\n
“Do not stop requiring an investigation by UN officials, that is to say, the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Ms. Navi Pillay whom I know very well and is a very good woman. But at times United Nations acts like it is wearing a straitjacket.<\/p>\n
“Ms Pillay and Mr Guterres need to save the sanctity of their agencies. They need to go themselves.<\/p>\n
“This is an intolerable crime. Like all other crimes, but this one particularly. And it is unacceptable because it contains a hatred of secularism, of the struggle of women, and of democracy.”<\/p>\n
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