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An international conference was convened on August 21 at the headquarters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), near Paris, to address the political prisoner massacre that took place during the summer of 1988 in Iran.<\/p>\n
Among the distinguished guests and speakers, was the former Chief of UNAMI Human Rights Office in Iraq (2012), Mr. Tahar Boumedra, Director of the Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI<\/a>).<\/p>\n Drawing from his own experience as the former UNAMI Human Rights Office Chief, Mr. Boumedra recalled his observations and pointed out that during his tenure, he directly witnessed atrocities committed by the pro-Iranian regime government in Baghdad.<\/p>\n He highlighted the government of Nouri al-Maliki<\/a> deliberately starving and depriving political refugees in Camp Ashraf of necessary medical care while poisoning the potable water with uranium-contaminated substance. Mr. Boumedra stressed that these actions amounted to a blatant crime of denying people sustenance.<\/p>\n The full speech of Mr. Tahar Boumedra\u2019s speech follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Madam Rajavi<\/a>, brothers and sisters, eminents, specialists, here with us. My experience is very hard in Camp Ashraf. And I would like to borrow the statement, Cheller’s statement, that you do not need a PhD to recognize a crime.<\/p>\n What I personally witnessed is that a government decides to starve a population and they do it under the supervision of the United Nations. I witnessed when the convoys bring in provisions to Camp Ashraf<\/a>, the Iraqi government used to stop the convoy before the camp, expose the provisions, the food, to 50 degrees centigrade sun, three days out of the camp to make sure that the food perishes before they allow it into the camp. So, we don’t need a Ph.D. to recognize this is a crime, starving a population.<\/p>\n Also, a government that decides to divert water, contaminated by the depleted uranium to the camp. Drinking water in the camp was deliberately diverted into the camp from a river contaminated by the depleted uranium. The WHO in Iraq refused to investigate.<\/p>\n So this is a government that decides to poison a population. And the United Nations, represented by the WHO, refused to investigate such a crime. Here again, I would say that you don’t need a Ph.D. to recognize that a government decided to poison a population.<\/p>\n And then people get sick. They need medical care. And the government decides to prevent a population from access to medical care. In order to send one person from the camp to a hospital in Iraq, I used to spend more than a month trying to convince and ask at all levels help for in taking people to the hospital. And some of them passed away before they reached the hospital.<\/p>\n Maliki secretly buried 52 bodies of #Ashrafmassacre<\/a>, 2 destroy evidence of crime against humanity #Freethe7<\/a> #Iraq<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/JKJ7TEBlRZ<\/a><\/p>\n — shahriar kia (@shahriarkia) September 1, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n