International conference in Geneva warns on massacre in Camp Liberty
On Friday, September 20, in a grand international conference in Geneva, Maryam Rajavi, while condemning 20 days of silence and inaction concerning the horrendous condition of seven Ashraf refugees, including six women, who have been taken hostage by Maliki’s assassins and it is close to three weeks that they are under torture and interrogation, called on U.S., UN, and the High Commissioner for Human Rights Mrs. Pillay to act according to their legal and moral commitments to immediately free the hostages. She said that according to specific and accurate information from various sources, hostages are in the hands of Government of Iraq. These details have also been brought to the attention of U.S. officials, the High Commissioner for Refugees, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the European Union. She warned that continuation of silence on part of the US government would pave the way for the proxy government of mullahs in Iraq to commit atrocity against the hostages.
Rajavi added: The September 1st massacre in Ashraf has turned the already precarious condition in Camp Liberty into a pressing matter. Ominous intentions of the Iraqi government become evident as despite guarantees by UN officials and U.S. Secretary of State, it continues to obstruct providing minimum security provisions for Camp Liberty residents such as transfer of personal protective gears and medical equipment from Ashraf to Liberty and refuses to allow the 17,500 T-walls that protected the containers to be returned to the camp.
Maryam Rajavi stated: Since Government of Iraq has no competence whatsoever in protecting the residents and is itself their murderer, the UN monitoring team and UN Blue Helmet forces should be stationed inside Camp Liberty at all hours of the day because without the presence of a third force in Camp Liberty, no security is conceivable.
In addition to Maryam Rajavi, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, former Prime Minister of Spain; Giulio Terzi, Foreign Minister of Italy (2011-2013); Horst Teltschik, leader of the Munich Security Conference (1999-2008); Sid Ahmed Ghozali, former Prime Minister of Algeria; Philip Crowley,US Assistant Secretary of State of (20092-011); Senator Ingrid Betancourt, former presidential candidate in Colombia; Eric Vorou member of Swiss parliament; Alessandro Pagano, member of Italian parliament; Senator Gerie Douran and Senator Ripol from Spain; Dennis Demvel, member of Belgian parliament; Tahar Boumedra, former senior UN official and in charge of Camp Ashraf case; Marc Ginsberg, former U.S. Ambassador to Morocco; former U.S. Senator Robert Torricelli; General Mesghal Al-Batish, Staff Brigadier General of Syrian Free Army; and Colonel Wesley Martin, a commander of Ashraf protection also addressed the conference.
Rajavi added that so far as the appeasers of mullahs are concerned, this massacre is a matter for their perpetual shame and disgrace because the Iranian Resistance and its supporters around the world had time and again warned that the subordinate government to the mullahs in Iraq is positioning itself to carry out another humanitarian catastrophe against PMOI. Nonetheless, their only response was silence and inaction.
Participant in the conference expressed their abhorrence regarding the turning of a blind eye by U.S. and UN on the human catastrophes in Ashraf and Liberty and shouldering away from minimum investigations into these atrocities that till now have led to the killing of 100 defenseless refugees. They called on U.S. and UN to put an end to this inaction and silence that has emboldened the henchmen and assassins of the Iranian regime and its subordinate government in Iraq and to live up to their commitments to residents of Camp Liberty who are threatened by another massacre at any time.
Conference emphasized that United States and United Nations are legally and morally directly responsible for providing safety and protection to these refugees that are ‘people of concern’ and protected by the Fourth Geneva Convention and therefore are liable for any threat and danger to them.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
September 20, 2013
