By Michael W. Chapman | May 5, 2021 | 4:19pm EDT
Photos of some of the victims of the 1988 Iranian Massacre. (Screenshot, Iran International)
(CNS News) On May 3, more than 150 former U.N. officials, human rights activists, and legal experts sent an open letter to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights requesting that a Commission of Inquiry into the 1988 mass extrajudicial executions and forced disappearances in Iran be established.
The letter notes that the 1988 killings of thousands of political prisoners across Iran, mostly of supporters of the People s Mujahedin of Iran, may have constituted crimes against humanity.
Family members of the victims and survivors are today the “subject of persistent threats, harassment, intimidation and attacks because of their attempts to seek information on the fate and whereabouts of the individuals and their demands for justice, according to the letter.
By Michael W. Chapman | May 5, 2021 | 4:19pm EDT
Photos of some of the victims of the 1988 Iranian Massacre. (Screenshot, Iran International)
(CNS News) On May 3, more than 150 former U.N. officials, human rights activists, and legal experts sent an open letter to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights requesting that a Commission of Inquiry into the 1988 mass extrajudicial executions and forced disappearances in Iran be established.
The letter notes that the 1988 killings of thousands of political prisoners across Iran, mostly of supporters of the People s Mujahedin of Iran, may have constituted crimes against humanity.
Family members of the victims and survivors are today the “subject of persistent threats, harassment, intimidation and attacks because of their attempts to seek information on the fate and whereabouts of the individuals and their demands for justice, according to the letter.
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Washington – In 1994, as 800,000 mostly Tutsi people were beaten, hacked to death or shot dead in a 100-day bloodbath in Rwanda, the United States hesitated to call it genocide, eventually using the watered-down phrase “acts of genocide.”
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US sees genocides against Uighurs and Armenians but consistency elusive In 1994, as 800,000 mostly Tutsi people were beaten, hacked to death or shot dead in a 100-day bloodbath in Rwanda, the United States hesitated to call it genocide, eventually using the watered-down phrase acts of genocide.
Members of the Uighur community hold placards on Apr 22, 2021 as they demonstrate to call on the British parliament to vote to recognise treatment of the minority by China as genoicde. (Photo: AFP/Justin Tallis)
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