{"id":246287,"date":"2021-09-03T09:25:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T14:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=246287"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:45:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:45:46","slug":"growing-international-calls-for-investigating-1988-massacre-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/growing-international-calls-for-investigating-1988-massacre-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing International Calls for Investigating 1988 Massacre in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances\u00a0joined\u00a0the call for an international investigation into the\u00a01988 massacre<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Working Group<\/a> reiterates the concerns expressed about the ongoing concealment of burial sites of those forcibly disappeared and allegedly executed between July and September 1988 across the country. The Working Group recalls that an enforced disappearance continues until the fate and whereabouts of the individuals concerned are established and joins the call for an international investigation into the matter,\u201d the report reads.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the summer of 1988, over 30,000 political prisoners were executed. Most of the victims were the members and supporters of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK).\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Recently the Iranian Resistance held a conference that focused equal attention upon details of that massacre as recalled by its survivors and upon legal issues relating to it.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The conference was attended by more than 1,000 former<\/a> political prisoners and eyewitnesses to the regime\u2019s mass executions, many of whom addressed a global audience via the live video stream.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They were accompanied by various European policymakers and legal scholars, who offered insight regarding the role\u00a0that Western governments and judicial systems\u00a0might play in bringing major perpetrators of the massacre to justice, including the regime\u2019s current president Ebrahim Raisi.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While the estimated number of victims of the 1988 massacre is above 30,000, one\u00a0eyewitness to the massacre who provided a video testimonial to the NCRI before Friday\u2019s conference even suggested that this is a conservative estimate.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mahmoud\u00a0Royaei<\/a>\u00a0noted that \u201cin some prisons, there were absolutely no survivors to give their testimonies about the events,\u201d meaning that Tehran would have been free to underreport the number of people who were detained in those prisons prior to the massacre. At the same time, the deputy intelligence minister at the time of the massacre, Reza Malek, referred to the death commissions on at least one occasion as having targeted 33,700 people, almost all of whom were members of\u00a0the MEK.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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