{"id":238913,"date":"2021-05-01T04:09:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T09:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=238913"},"modified":"2023-01-21T01:57:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T00:57:28","slug":"editorial-appeasement-enables-the-iran-regimes-ongoing-crimes-against-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/editorial\/editorial-appeasement-enables-the-iran-regimes-ongoing-crimes-against-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: Appeasement Enables The Iran Regime\u2019s Ongoing Crimes Against Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Maryam<\/a>
Maryam Rajavi visits a memorial of the 30,000 victims of Iran\u2019s 1988 massacre of political prisoners outside France\u2019s National Assembly, October 29, 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As Western governments engage in negotiations with the Iranian regime on the nuclear dossier, it would be instructive to note how Tehran reacts to being given latitude and impunity in the context of appeasement.
\nOne of the most shameful and harmful consequences of the West\u2019s policy of appeasement has been providing impunity to the ruling mullahs when it comes to the 1988 massacre<\/a>. Now, the situation is getting worse.
\nStarting in the summer of 1988, in the span of a few months, the clerical regime extrajudicially executed at least 30,000 dissidents, the overwhelming being members and sympathizers of the main Iranian opposition movement, the Mujahedin-e Khalq<\/a> (POMI\/MEK<\/a>), in various prisons across the country. The bodies were secretly dumped mostly in unmarked mass graves. One of the cemeteries is called Khavaran in the capital Tehran.<\/p>\n

Today, the regime is on the verge of implementing plans to destroy the sites of mass graves in Khavaran<\/a> Cemetery as part of a deliberate pattern to erase its crimes.
\nIn its latest attempt, the regime has forced members of the Baha\u2019i community, a religious minority already suppressed by the regime, to bury their dead in Khavaran, an inhuman measure strongly condemned by that community.
\nSince the 1988 murders, the regime has tried to remove all evidence of the 1988 killings, prompting human rights organizations like Amnesty International<\/a> to describe the regime\u2019s actions as \u201congoing\u201d crimes against humanity.
\nA 2017 UN report on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran noted that in March of that year, families of the massacre\u2019s victims visited a site in Mashhad \u201cwhere up to 170 political prisoners are believed to be buried\u201d and found that \u201cthe previously flat area had been covered with soil to create a raised mound over the grave.\u201d
\nLate last year, a senior group of six UN human rights experts<\/a> declared that the regime’s past and ongoing violations related to prison massacres in 1988 might amount to crimes against humanity. They called for an international investigation if the violations persist.
\nAs recent evidence shows, those violations continue to persist. However, the international community continues its silence and latitude toward the regime’s disturbing behavior.
\nInternational silence breeds human rights violations in Tehran. It is time to hold the Iranian regime to account for its ongoing crimes against humanity.
\nMrs. Maryam Rajavi<\/a>, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran<\/a> (NCRI), condemned the clerical regime\u2019s inhuman demolition of the graves of the martyrs. She urged the United Nations Secretary-General, the UN Security Council, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the UN Human Rights Council to do the same. She also called on them to take immediate measures to prevent the continued destruction of the graves of the martyrs of the 1988 massacre and prevent pressure and coercion against the Baha’is.<\/p>\n

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In reality, Iran\u2019s ruling mullahs do not respect Shiite, Sunni or any human life for that matter.
Indeed, why do they imprison and kill the Baha\u2019is?
The mullahs massacre even the Shiite Mojahedin in #Iran<\/a>. The Mojahedin\u2019s name is their primary red line. #1988Massacre<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/flJ72JO7FA<\/a><\/p>\n

— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) April 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n