{"id":237914,"date":"2021-04-14T12:33:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T17:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=237914"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:59:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:59:02","slug":"to-prevent-recurring-bloodshed-in-iran-demand-accountability-for-regimes-past-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/to-prevent-recurring-bloodshed-in-iran-demand-accountability-for-regimes-past-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"To Prevent Recurring Bloodshed In Iran, Demand Accountability for Regime\u2019s Past Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last September, seven United Nations human rights experts<\/a> wrote a letter to the leadership of the Iranian regime and called attention to the ongoing proliferation of issues related to the clerical regime\u2019s massacre of political prisoners in 1988. The document noted that a number of that massacre\u2019s perpetrators remain in positions of great power and influence to this day, due to a trend of impunity that has been actively promoted by regime authorities and has never been seriously challenged by the international community.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn December 1988, the UN General Assembly passed resolution A\/Res\/43\/137 on the situation of human rights in Iran, which expressed \u2018grave concern\u2019 about \u2018a renewed wave of executions in the period July-September 1988\u2019 targeting prisoners \u2018because of their political convictions,\u201d the letter noted. In this way, it made clear that the international community was aware of the massacre while it was still ongoing, thanks to the efforts of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, which has been the main target of the regime\u2019s underlying crackdown on organized dissent.<\/p>\n

The MEK\u2019s members and supporters comprised the overwhelming majority of the 30,000 victims of the 1988 massacre<\/a>. But if serious attention had been paid to the Iranian Resistance warning, the killings might never have reached this scale. Even more importantly, intervention by Western powers or the UN would have demonstrated an early commitment to holding the regime\u2019s authorities accountable for human rights abuses, and the regime perhaps had to halt its abuses during the subsequent three-plus decades.<\/p>\n

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