Taking stock of Iran’s crimes against humanity 30 years after the 1988 massacre
Taking stock of Iran’s crimes against humanity 30 years after the 1988 massacre In one summer around 30,000 political prisoners were executed and buried in mass graves in Iran. By Reza Shafiee Special to Al Arabiya English Friday, 10 August 2018 On July 26, Amnesty International renewed its warning of many years that the theocratic regime in Iran is destroying all the evidence of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners. Since the massacre, the only visible proof of it is mass graves where bodies of the prisoners were piled up. There is also a constant reminder for the rest of us that such heinous crime has not been thoroughly investigated by an independent international commission. Amnesty International in its Urgent Action said: “ROAD TO BE BUILT OVER INDIVIDUAL AND MASS GRAVES. The families of political dissidents who were forcibly disappeared and extra-judicially killed in Ahvaz, southern Iran, in the 1980s are suffering untold mental anguish and distress as the a...