{"id":235269,"date":"2021-02-22T03:32:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T08:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=235269"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:11:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:11:20","slug":"time-does-not-absolve-human-rights-violators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/time-does-not-absolve-human-rights-violators\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Does Not Absolve Human Rights Violators"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Iran-1988-massacre-10122020\"<\/a><\/p>\n

By Giulio Terzi<\/strong><\/p>\n

A letter sent by seven UN Special Rapporteurs<\/a> on Human Rights to the Iranian regime, in order to clarify the position of the regime on the 1988 massacre of political prisoners, is a very \u201cmomentous breakthrough<\/a>\u201d according to Amnesty International.<\/p>\n

In 1988, the then-Supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini ordered a fatwa<\/a> to eradicate any political oppositions to his despotic regime, which lead to the mass executions of some 30,000 political prisoners in the span of just a few months. Such a ferocity was unexpected, in several cases even among the regime\u2019s establishment, as Khomeini\u2019s designated successor, Ayatollah Montazeri, who publicly chose to take a stand against the diktat and for that was declared a foe of the state and placed under house arrest for several years.<\/p>\n

In the summer of 1988, thousands were hanged nationwide, truckloads of bodies were driven to mass graves overnight. Bulldozers rapidly emptied them, and the earth swallowed all witnesses of a cruel breathing ideology, and it was upon history to forget them once and for all. An entire generation vanished. Thirty thousand names, faces, dreams, and aspiring futures dead and buried.<\/p>\n

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To Stop Executions in Iran Permanently, World Should Hold Mullahs to Account for 1988 Massacre<\/div><\/div>
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