Time to bring perpetrators of Iran’s 1988 massacre to justice
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh
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Since its establishment, the Islamic Republic has committed various forms of human rights violations. One of the regime’s most egregious crimes, which until last week seemed to have been forgotten by the wider world, was the 1988 massacre of tens of thousands of political prisoners, including women and teenagers.
However, a group of UN human rights experts has finally written a letter about the massacre to the Iranian government, pointing out that the regime’s actions “may amount to crimes against humanity.” The letter also called on the global community to take action to investigate the atrocity, including through the establishment of an international investigation.
The UN Wants to Investigate The Thousands That Went Missing in Iran in 1988 Published December 10th, 2020 - 07:43 GMT
Portraits of victims killed in Iran s massacres of dissidents in 1988 on display at a memorial in France last year. (AFP/File)
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Up to 30,000 young Iranians were executed without trial in final throes of war with Iraq.
Iran faces a UN investigation into massacres of imprisoned dissidents that the regime in Tehran has tried to cover up for more than 30 years.
Thousands of mainly young people were executed without trial in Iran in 1988, as the war with Iraq was ending. Those killed were mainly supporters of the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (MEK), which had backed Baghdad in the conflict.