A prominent Iranian opposition leader called for an independent inquiry by United Nations on the rocket attack and massacre of Iranian refugees in Iraq.
Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), made the call on Sunday the wake of the December 26, 2013 rocket attack on Camp Liberty, home to 3,000 Iranian dissidents, members of the Iranian resistance group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
Four residents were killed and 71 wounded when thirty-eight 107mm rockets and 280mm missiles hit struck the camp.
The al-Mukhtar Army, an Iraqi Shiite militia group, claimed responsibility for the attack on Camp Liberty, in a protected area of Baghdad Airport. Its leadership has expressed support for the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. It has also boasted of being sponsored by Iran and linked to its Revolutionary Guard.
Rajavi said: “It is four months now that the Iraqi government and its master (Iranian regime) are doing their outmost to cover up the reality of the September 1 mas
She said lack of action by the U.S., EU and UN to guarantee the safety and protection of Camp Liberty residents only emboldens the mullahs and their puppet government in Iraq to repeat their atrocities against the defenseless residents of Liberty on a much larger scale.
Rajavi was speaking at the NCRI headquarters near Paris in an event in tribute to the victims of the most recent rocket attack on Camp Liberty.
dignitaries such as honorary governor and former head of DST Yves Bonnet, former UN Chief of Human Rights Office in Iraq, Tahar Boumedra, and religious personalities such as Bishop Jacques Gaillot; Sheik Khalil Merroun, head of d’Evry Mosque; Abderrahmane Dahmane, President of Council of Muslim Democrats of France; and a dozens of Iranians and supporters of resistance from throughout Europe participated in the event.
Maryam Rajavi, Iranian opposition leader calls for an independent UN inquiry into rocket attack and massacre of Iranian dissidents in Iraq
Rajavi called on the international community, in particular the U.S., EU, UN and the UN Security Council to adopt urgent measures to save the lives of these defenseless asylum-seekers. She called for the provision of minimum security requirements at Camp Liberty, immediate release of the seven Ashraf hostages, a comprehensive, independent, transparent and impartial UN probe into the September 1 massacre in Ashraf and the December 26 attack on Liberty, and transferring asylum-seekers in Camp Liberty, especially the injured and the sick, to European countries or the United States.