The incontrovertible facts about MKO’s genocidal campaign against the Iraqi Kurds are so hard that even the organization itself prefers to keep silent over it and even abstains from getting into efforts to attribute it to Iranian regime as an anti-MKO campaign. The Swedish Parliament is just a few steps from making a decision to recognize MKO’s Operation Morvarid (Pearl), a post-Persian Gulf military campaign in collaboration with Saddam to suppress Iraqi Kurds uprising, as genocide and crimes against humanity as it has already recognized Saddam’s Anfal campaign. The following from David Gethin’s New Al-Qaeda in Europe: Iranian Terrorists-Good or Evil provides adequate evidence to dispel any doubt.
The Wall Street Journal reported that in March 1991, after the Persian Gulf War and the operation by American Forces called Desert Storm in Iraq, Saddam Hussein, the then President of Iraq ordered Masoud Rajavi, the President of NCRI, who was at the same time the Leader and the Commander in Chief of MKO and NLA, to help Iraq in suppressing the Kurds uprising in the northern part of the country. Those who were involved in this operation have testified to this fact.
The US Department of State in a comprehensive report to Congress at the end of 1994 also certified that NCRI/MKO forces were involved in the suppression of Iraqi Kurds by saying the followings:
“Following the Operation dubbed “Desert Storm”, Iraqi Kurds claimed that MOW helped the Iraqi army in the suppression of Kurds. Those who fled the operation zone and took refuge near Iranian borders corroborated this allegation.
In this connection, Jalal Talebeni the Leader of the “Patriotic Movement of Iraqi Kurdistan”, (and the present Iraqi President) told reporters:
“In Karkouk Battle, five thousands MKO members joined Saddam’s forces.”
In a book entitled “For the Judgment of History”, the text of the negotiation between Masoud Rajavi, the President of NCRI, with Iraq’s intelligence officials at the time of Saddam Hussein’s rule in Iraq is published. Part of the book is about negotiations between Masoud Rajavi and General Saber Eldori, the then Head of Iraq’s Intelligence Service, right after the 1991 uprising in Iraq. From these negotiations the role of the Leader and members of NCRI in the suppression of the Iraqi people and the extent of their loyalty to Saddam Hussein’s Regime becomes clear.
“General Saber: The President (Saddam Hussein) thanked and appreciated Brother Masoud Rajavi and NLA for the valuable contribution of this army in the suppression of the recent agitations. I explained to him, in detail, the role played by the organisation in this suppressive opera-tion. In the course of operation, I was reporting minute after minute your activities and told him that organisation. Despite little facilities at your disposal and we are sorry that we cannot satisfy all your needs, you have done a great job, beyond our expectations. …I have asked the President to send a thank you letter to Masoud, but the President told me that sending a letter is not enough and he should meet Masoud in person and thank him himself.”
The documentary film of the meeting between Masoud Rajavi, President of NCRI and the Head of the Intelligence Service of Iraq is attached.
Other members of NCRI who accompanied Masoud Rajavi, the President of NCRI, in this meeting and were involved directly in the genocide of 1991 were:
1Mehdi Abrishamchi, Head of NCRI’s Peace Committee 2Abass Davari, Head of NCRI’s Labour Committee 3Ebrahim Zakeri, Head of NCRI’s Security and Counter Terrorism Committee 4Mahdi Boraei, Member of NCRI
It is noteworthy to mention Masoud Rajavi, the President of NCRI was in charge of commanding this genocide operation dubbed “Pearl Operation” against the Kurds. Furthermore, according to the testimonies of the members of NCRI, Mrs. Fereshteh Yeganeh, Chair of Educations and Training Committee of NCRI was responsible for providing logistics and sup-port for the operation.
The crime of genocide against Iraqi Kurds was committed in March 1991 in two regions in the northern parts of Iraqi Kurdistan namely “Kafri” and “Kalar”. The Governor of Iraq’s Kurdistan province in a statement issued the names of persons killed, injured or captured by MKO forces.
The names of those who lost their lives as a result of this operation are as follows:
1. Samad Rahim Hassan Mohammad
2. Ali Mahmoud Khalil
3. Aboubakr Saddigh Hussein
4. Mostafa Mohammad Saddigh
5. Hussein Rahim Hassan
6. Sami Nasser Ismaeil
7. Servat Ahmad Rahim
8. Omar Ashraf Majid
9. Borham Ali Rostam
10. Ali Mahmoud Khalifeh Hamid
11. Aziz Ahmad Mohammad Ali
12. Mohammad Ahmad Mohammad Ali
13. Salah O Edin Mohammad Ahmad Rahim
14. Najib Hussein Hassan
15. Farhad Rahman Rahim
16. Ali Abdollah Sadigh
17. Samad Rahim Hassan
18. Jamileh Hassan Hamid
19. Salar Mohammad Amin
20. Adalat Jabbar Hussein
21. Ahamad Mohammad Ghader Mahmoud
22. Mohammad Hussein Hamid
23. Jalal Hussein Abodllah
24. Mohammad Ebrahim Abdollah Farah
25. Aziz Mohammad Hadar
26. Rafigh Farigh Rahim
27. Sareif Faeigh Maha El Din
28. Hakim Aziz Ahmad
29. Abdolkarim Abdolrahman Fattah
30. Omar Mohammad Amin
31. Hamid Fattah Mohmmad
32. Yadegar Halah
33. Glaviz Abdolgahder Abdolkarim
34. Akram Ali Rostam
35. Ali Hassan Abdolrahman
36. Adalat Jabar Hussein
37. Kaveh Dara Ahmad
38. Aref Baban
39. Adnan Mahmoud
40. Adnan Hassan Ahmad
41. Haji Mahmoud Mohammad Rashid
42. Omar Mahmoud Mohammad
43. Osman Mohammad Gharib
44. Shokr Rashid Najmeh
45. Shalan Rashid Najmeh
46. Salar Hamid Raouf
47. Omar Ahmad Hassan
48. Nomid Omar Saleh
49. Dara Rashid Abdolgader
50. Mohammad Rashid Ghanbar
51. Ali Hassan Lafteh
52. Jalil Khalil Ebrahim
53. Mohammad Shokr
54. Loghman Abdolrahim Fars
55. Tahssin Saeid Abdollah
56. Ehssan Vahab
57. Talaat Shokat Majid
58. Mohammad Namegh Tabib
59. RibovarAhmad Mohammad
60. Majid Aziz Abdollah
61. Omar Ahmad Solyman
62. Zojiya Fazel Marhoud Owdah
63. Lyla Fazel Marhoud Owdah
64. Bakir Ali Saleh
65. Borham Jabar Majal
66. Maheh Mohammad Rahim Karim
67. Youssef Hussein Ali Ghader
68. Mohmmad Sharief Mohammad Saeid
69. Nor Edin Ali Ahmad
70. Noshirvan Ahmad Rostam
71. Ali Ahmad Abdollah
72. Osman Ghader Sadoun
73. Abdorahman Ahmad Karim Khadr
74. Omran Krim Mohammad Saleh
75. Fatah Ahmad Ali
76. Hussein Abdolrahman Ahmad
77. Adel Mahmoud Saeid Sharief
78. Loghman Mohammad Saleh Madouf
79. Omar Mohah Saeid Ahmad
The death certificates of some of those killed in this massacre are attached.
List of those who were injured as a result of this operation:
1. Hadim Hussein Ali (injured in the feet and abdomen)
2. Hassan Ahmad Rahim (injured in the toes and abdomen)
3. Khalil Ebrahim Abdolghader (injured in the neck)
4. Nori Sofi Mahmoud Khossrow (injured in eyes and hands)
5. Jamal Vahid Amin (injured in throat)
6. Hoywa Mohammad Ahmad
7. Mojhdeh Hussein Darvish
8. Khandeh Hussein Darvish (injured in the right hand)
9. Hussein Darvish Ahmad
10. Hatam Mahmoud Vahab Mohammad
11. Dara Ahmad Ali (injured in the abdomen, head and feet)
12. Nabard Assi Mohammad
13. Hmzeh Mohammad Darvish
14. Shilan Mohammad Darvish
15. Salmeh Mohammad Abdoljabar
The medical certificates and some photos of those injured in this operation are attached.
List of those who were captured and jailed in the prisons belonging to NCRI Group for almost five months are as follows:
1. Abdollah Mohammad Rashid
2. Ebrahim Mohammad Rashid
3. Adel Saleh Mohammad
4. Salar Mohammad Khan
5. Mohammad Javad Solyman
6. Shalan Hassan Fathollah
7. Mohammad Hassan Ali
8. Mohammad Ali Fars
9. Edris Ghader Shaker
10. Jalal Hassan Kaki
11. Omar Hassan Mohammad
12. Shir Ali Sharief
13. Mostafa Hassan Mohammad