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MKO hostages unaware of their basic rights

MKO members’ unawareness of their most basic rights is the major problem of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in determining their refugee status. MKO hostages unaware of their basic rights

According to a report published by Habilian database, some reports indicated that UN’s representatives investigating the refugee status of Mujahedin-e Khalq elements in Iraq called these individuals’ unawareness of their most basic rights as “the main hurdle in determining their refugee status”.

The report adds that although the process has not yet been started, the sporadic conversations of UN representatives with these individuals reveal that three decades of life in the Ashraf prison and Rajavi’s indoctrination sessions have left them in complete ignorance of rules of International relations, including international rules on asylum and human rights.

Feeling of insecurity after being drawn out of Camp Ashraf and destruction in case of separating the group are thoughts indoctrinated into their belief system.

Even though the cultic practices of MKO still continues in Camp Liberty, a brief opportunity for each individual to visit his/her family members or access to the world’s information help them realize their mistakes and point them in the right direction.

"If members of Camp Ashraf are provided with freedom of thought, the process of determining refugee status will be expedited, since most of them will decide to come back to Iran," said a former member of Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK, also MKO and PMOI).

Defected members of the cult have described life at their Camp Ashraf base in Iraq as miserable saying the organization has been brainwashing its members for the last three decades.

A little more than a month ago, renowned cult expert Steve Alan Hassan said that in his professional opinion, the extreme influence (brainwashing) used by this destructive cult (Mujahedin-e Khalq) to recruit, indoctrinate and maintain control over their members ranks extremely high.

April 3, 2012 0 comments

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The Suffering Souls that Profit

Death of MKO members grants the group an opportunity to make further excuses

According to released news by MKO’s media, a member of the group, Nour Mohammad Biranvand, died of hepatic failure in the New Iraq Camp (Camp Ashraf). Confirming the report, an Iraqi Security source told AlIraqinews (AIN) that “The element died for heart failure.” The group claims that he was long suffering the disease and inaccessibility to specialist hospital and doctors was the cause of his death.

The death of any resident within Ashraf or TTL before anything is the result of the group’s procrastination to relocate and it grants the terrorist group an opportunity to make further excuses and to condemn the Iraqi Government. Besides putting the blame of any death on the Iraqi Government at the present, any death means a gained victory for MKO rather than a human soul perished long away from his/her family.

The Iraqi Government has never denied the residents access to medical services in Iraq. However, as a closed cult, MKO insists to send accompanying observers along with any patients that is to be taken out of the camp to any medical center, an outright violation of a country’s codes. A cult is never expected to care the least for its entrapped members as it is the case with MKO. The responsibility is on the Iraqi Government to expedite the members’ relocation to TTL, where they will get a step nearer to the free world.

On last Thursday, Diyala Operations Command announced the transferring of the second group of the MKO elements which involved 400 elements to TTL. Although MKO played for the time, at last it had to submit to move the second group. It is not clear how long the group intends to prolong its stay in Ashraf, but one thing is crystal clear; there remain less than two months to hit the deadline for complete closure of Ashraf and its departure from Iraq.

March 14, 2012 0 comments

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Beware of another Cult Colony Formation

The people who are familiar with the characteristics of cults will easily spot one when they encounter it. MKO is not an exception when you come upon the cult leader’s latest remarks and The world will not tolerate formation of another Jamestown colony demands in a struggle to preserve the whole structure of the cult. Recognized as a dangerous terrorist cult still on the US’s FTO’s list, MKO is now facing a crisis of being forced to leave Iraq, where it was given a safe haven at the time of the country’s fallen dictator with whom it had formed a close collaboration to act as his mercenaries.

According to a MoU signed by the Iraqi Government, UN and MKO, and asserted by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), all the residents in the long occupied military base of MKO, Camp Ashraf, have to be transferred to a Temporary Transit Location TTL near Baghdad’s airport to be processed within two months to be transferred to third countries. The UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR) is tasked with immediate determination of the residents’ refugee status as soon as they are stationed in TTL. But there is a big problem: UNHCR can only process refugee determination and seeking for the residents’ asylum in other countries one by one and individually. As the UNHCR commissioner, Antonio Gutierrez, stressed in a meeting with Iraqi Minister of Human Rights, “The commissioner doesn’t grant asylum to groups and organizations, rather asylum is granted to individuals under the condition of abandoning violence”.

That is where the problem arises. MKO is a cult and dispersion of the members under any cause means total disintegration of the cult. A cult and its leaders seek to isolate his/her followers from outsiders to ensure that the followers will only hear the cult’s propaganda. The isolation from influences outside protects the cult’s internalized belief system and keeps them away from the outside critical thinking that threatens the cult’s integrity. And MKO has since long been engaged in such cultist activities keeping the members inside the heavily controlled, physically and psychologically, military camp of Ashraf.

As the TTL is planned to be under full control of the Iraqi Government and UNHCR, absolutely in contrast to MKO’s complete control over Camp Ashraf, one of the options to safeguard the integrity of the cult is a quest for any location anywhere to transfer the members all together. Now you can well understand why Maryam Rajavi, the cult’s acting surrogate for her absent husband, appealed to Secretary Clinton, the UN Secretary General and other western personalities demanding that the residents be relocated temporarily to a site near the Jordanian border instead of being relocated to Temporary Transit Location TTL.

Interestingly, the camp she demands for is a piece of bare desert that was set up as a tent camp to accommodate asylum seekers after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. And of course, she announces to accept all the expenses of the relocation and other expenses such as “flattening the land, installing tents, providing logistical support, services”, as she proposes. For sure, the world will not tolerate formation of another Jamestown colony, this time on Iraq-Jordan border. A global move deems necessary to accomplish the relocation of the residents to break the spell of the cult and to save the spellbound members by exposing them to the reality of the outside world, where their families have been long waiting for them.

by M. Nelson

March 6, 2012 0 comments

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MeK Gestapo to blackmail the trapped forces

Information received from the Camp Ashraf suggests that, despite receiving no green light from Europe to accept Mujahedeen, the MeK administrators tricky and deceitfully have attempted

Rajavi’s problems for evacuation of a human depot

to blackmail the troops, in order to reduce the consequences of Camp Ashraf closure, and they are installing the software of Inhibition in their minds with these steps:

The desperate leadership of MEK terrorist group has tried all his efforts to prevent the imminent collapse of his organization. Rajavi is so frightened as if all the 3400 people trapped in the camp Ashraf are issued to death.

Relying on his military and organizational force at Camp Ashraf, MeK leadership has impressed his rivals for over two decades. Now, like when true numbers of the tenfold- overstated Camp Ashraf residents were disclosed, the Opposition is going to be encountered with the true faces of Rajavi’s disrupted remnants; those who are introduced by MeK propaganda machine " the valorous men and women " , the cult members who every 6 months are sworn by their leadership to stay at the scene.

The Illiterate men and women, who have been placed under strict news censorship, and they have been indoctrinated that outside the camp there are troops who line up to assault them; those who are so weak that even fear the ordinary people.

These people’s exit from Camp Ashraf, in which they were stagnated for many years, will be a headache for the MEK leadership, like when a stupid kid expose the phony discipline of his pretending parents and becomes their scandal.

This is the main factor of Rajavi’s distraction and the reason for his resort to any instrument to retain his position in Iraq.

Information received from the Camp Ashraf suggests that, despite receiving no green light from Europe to accept Mujahedeen, the MeK administrators tricky and deceitfully have attempted to blackmail the troops, in order to reduce the consequences of Camp Ashraf closure, and they are installing the software of Inhibition in their minds with these steps:

• Your transformation to Europe is due to the leadership, he has another non-compensated payment for you. The regime wants to kill you, but the leadership is trying to send you to the Europe.
• With your circumstance, you yourself know that you are not competent to all these payments by the leadership.
• You are just required to the absolute obedience, more than the past.
• Nobody has the right to speak even a word, unless he was permitted.

November 8, 2011 0 comments

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MKO is a Cult and should remain in the list

VOA Interviews Dr. Rasool Nafisi , academic and Middle East expert

Siamak Dehqanpour: a group of political activists have recently written a letter to call for keeping MKO in the terrorist list. You were one of the signatories of the letter. Why do you believe that MKO should remain in the list of the State Department and what kind of organization is the MKO?

Rasoul Nafisi: firstly I’d say that the letter was not signed by political activists. None of them were political activists but all of those 38 people are well-educated experts on Middle East affairs. I had a personal reason to sign the letter.

In my opinion, delisting the MKO is harmful to the youth in the US. Why? Unleashing the group opens the way for them to deceive the Iranian youth– a lot of whom have no information on the history of Iran. The organization has had a awkward life .They have always been imprudent, they have never cared about people’s lives, and the example was the operation “Eternal Light”( Forough-e-Javidan)
Neither am I a member of an organization, nor a political activist.

I am a scholar. I don’t have political idea or goal. I’m not paid by anyone. And I don’t pay anyone either.

I am morally concerned about the MKO as a guilty, imprudent organization that simply plays with people’s lives. In the infamous case of “Forough-e Javidan”, 600 foreign passports were found. MKO was basically established on political –military basis. It has a military ideology although it claims to be democratic. Furthermore, the problem about the MKO is that it [has held] a large number of Iranian youth in a country which was Iran’s enemy. The MKO sided with Saddam Hossein in a very very sensitive time, when he wanted to occupy Iranian soil.

Now the MKO’s problem is that Saddam Hossein has been collapsed but the MKO’s trained army remained in Iraq. No one knows what to do with them. If you want to move them to another country , I don’t think any country accepts them. If you want to send them individually to other countries, the MKO doesn’t accept the option.

The research done by RAND Corporation in 2009 indicated that about 70 percent of Ashraf residents are kept there against their will. Besides, when the American forces wanted to enter the camp in order to disarm them completely, hey were threatened to mass suicide [by the MKO].
I’d like to mention that they are a “cult”. A cult has some criteria;

– It has religious background
– They adore a personality
– They don’t accept any opinion from outside the group
– All decisions are made inside the group
– Most cults recommend their members to commit suicide. For instance, the case of James Jones. He made the 500 followers under his control commit suicide when finally he was stuck in a cul-de-sack …

I’d like to view this group from sociological point of view. There are good books about it. I think one of the best ones is the book by Ervand Abrahamian, the prominent Iranian historians who investigates the MKO’s history really impartially and even he has some sympathy for the group. He describes how a socially-politically founded organization finally turns into a cult.

Siamak Dehqanpour: there is an important point, the MKO has declined to annihilation several times since 1965 but each time they could stand up again and restart their activities. What’s the secret of such a thing?

Dr. Rasoul Nafisi: first of all, we should admit that the MKO is really well-organized. We have recently witnessed examples of it. They paid hundreds of thousands dollars to American military and political personalities, brought them to public to speak in favor of them. Unfortunately most of them were from right-wing. Again and again the MKO reconstructs itself. In a cult-like organization, all problems are in the system and the main cause of the system is its survival and its power and nothing else, that’s why it can survive.

Siamak Dehqanpour; do you think, it will be a crushing defeat [for the MKO] if Ashraf is shutdown?

Rasoul Nafisi: I actually see Ashraf as a wealth in hand of the MKO’s leadership. They use it to raise funds from the countries in the region. Some of military supporters of the group in the US officially say that “We want to use the group to destabilize Iran”! It is much to be regretted that. I mean the history has shown that the MKO is ready to do [what the US wants] as they allied with Saddam Hussein. They will absolutely ally with anyone else. They claim that they are democratic and tolerant because they are now in a weak condition.

I always consider groups, people and their words when they are in power, when they have the upper hand. See what they did with their allies in the council [National Council of Resistance] and in other cases.

Translated by Nejat Society

September 15, 2011 0 comments

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Prayer is unacceptable without pictures of MKO gang leader!

According to an inter-sectarian directive, which has been executed in the Rajavi’s cult for 25 years, the cult members should pray in a place where several pictures of the cult leader are mounted.

As reported by Habilian Association (families of Iranian victims of terror) database, according to Hussein Robubi, a member of the Executive Board of MKO, after he was appointed as an official for a terrorist base of MKO in Pakistan, immediately he was assigned to mount pictures of MKO leader (Masoud Rajavi) wherein the cult members say prayers.

According to news received, Hussein Robubi explains his action to implement the order of Rajavi in such states: “When I came to Pakistan, I saw only two or three pictures of Rajavi was mounted in the database. This showed that how Mahmood was preventing from shining of the light of leadership. So, I demanded to send us the pictures, as much as possible.”

Reported by Habilian Association database, also two former members of the cult say: “Robubi recommended personnel to mount Rajavi’s photo in every room; also he rose at the meetings that, According to Rajavi, if a Mujahed say prayer in a room, where there are not leadership’s photos, so his prayer would be unacceptable.”

July 16, 2011 0 comments

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MKO shooting defecting members

The terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) is reportedly opening fire on defecting members to prevent them from leaving their camp in Iraq’s Diyala province.

Over the last few weeks, some MKO members have managed to escape from the notorious Camp Ashraf, 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of Baghdad, while others have been injured and captured, a Press TV correspondent reported.

Three of the detainees ventured a getaway through the camp’s northern gate when they were seized by MKO guards and one of them was shot in the leg.

The reports come in contrast with MKO’s US and European sympathizers claim that members of the outlawed group are not armed.

Efforts by the Iraqi government, following the fall of former dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003, to shut down the military camp have failed under pressure from the US military and Western media outlets.

During his Tehran visit to Iran on Tuesday, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari reiterated Baghdad’s stance on the terror cell. “Camp Ashraf is to be shut down, and members of the [MKO] group have been given until the end of the current year (2011) to leave Iraqi soil,” he said.

The Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization is listed as a terrorist organization by Tehran and much of the international community, and is held responsible for numerous acts of terror against Iranian civilians and government officials.

The notorious group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of Saddam’s Ba’athist regime and set up Camp Ashraf, about 120 kilometers (74.5 miles) west of the Iranian border.

The organization is also known to have cooperated with Saddam in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds in the country’s north.

June 25, 2011 0 comments

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Mujahedin Khalq members deprived of basic rights

A former member of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) who has defected says MKO members are deprived of basic human rights at their Camp Ashraf base in Iraq.

Maryam Sanjabi told Press TV on Tuesday that MKO members have no freedom and are not allowed to decide whether to stay with the organization or leave it.

She said, “According to the organization’s regulations, members must follow orders and have no rights to ask any questions or make any comments,” she explained, adding, “Inside Ashraf, there is no access to the free world. Members are not allowed to read newspapers, use the internet or telephone, or meet their families.”

Sanjabi recently defected from the MKO and surrendered herself to Iraqi forces.

She says that anyone who wants to defect from the group faces the death penalty.

On April 8, a number of people were killed in clashes between Iraqi security forces and MKO members residing at Camp Ashraf, which is located in Diyala province.

The Iraqi army initially said that three people had been killed and 27 wounded, among them 13 members of the security forces.

AFP reported that ten people had been killed and over 40 injured.

A source at Baqouba’s main hospital confirmed they had received three bodies.
However, the MKO claimed that 31 of its members had been killed and 300 were injured.
But Iraqi forces say there is evidence that some of the MKO members who died in the incident were killed by MKO members themselves.

On April 11, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the cabinet was determined to shut the camp down.

The MKO fled to Iraq in the 1980s, where it enjoyed the support of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and set up Camp Ashraf in the eastern province of Diyala, near the Iranian border.
Over 3,000 MKO members are currently residing at the camp. In addition, the group sends elements to Iran on spying and terrorist missions.

The MKO also cooperated with Saddam in the massacres of Iraqi Kurds and in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq.

Since Saddam was deposed in 2003, the Iraqi government has set numerous deadlines for the terrorist group to leave the country but the MKO has managed to maintain its base due to US backing.

The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and has committed numerous terrorist acts against both Iranians and Iraqis.

Iran has repeatedly called on the Iraqi government to expel the group, but the US has been putting pressure on the Iraqi government to block the expulsion.Download MKO members deprived of basic rights

April 27, 2011 0 comments

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Camp Ashraf Escapee Says MKO Bans Marriage, Radio, Internet

Iraq’s Defense Ministry has announced that several residents of Camp Ashraf have fled the camp and appealed to Iraqi military forces for help.

Camp Ashraf, which is located some 60 kilometers from Baghdad and 100 kilometers from the border with Iran, is home to some 3,500 members of the Iranian opposition group Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, aka People’s Mujahedin of Iran). Iran has banned the group, and like the United States, considers it a terrorist organization. Iraq has said the camp must go.

Last week, 34 camp residents were killed during a raid by Iraqi forces under circumstances that are not clear.

The MKO says camp residents were killed by Iraqi forces. The Iraqi government, however, says it believes about 30 people were shot dead by guards at the camp.

The UN and rights groups have called for an independent investigation into the deaths.

Amnesty International has said that video clips of the April 8 clashes that the MKO has uploaded to YouTube appear to show Iraqi soldiers indiscriminately firing into the crowds and using vehicles to try and run others down.

Iraq’s Defense Ministry said that three MKO leaders were among the camp residents who escaped.

On April 19, Defense Ministry spokesman Muhammad al-Askari reportedly told a press conference in Baghdad that "three leaders of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran managed to escape Camp Ashraf." He named them as "senior leader Maryam Sinjari, leader Abdul Latif Shardouri [Abdollatif Shadvari], and leader Ibrat Kikhai."

I interviewed Shadvari last week. He told me he escaped from Camp Ashraf two months ago and turned himself in to Iraqi forces. He also said some of the other residents of the camp were being held there against their will.

Former MKO members have described the group as a cult that promotes celibacy and martyrdom, takes away members’ children, and uses psychological methods to pressure members and force them to remain obedient and follow orders.

The MKO has rejected the claims and accuses former members of being tools of Tehran.
Shadvari, who spoke to me from Baghdad where he said he’s staying at a hotel, said he joined the MKO when he was 15 years old. Here’s some of our conversation: Abdollatif Shadvari

Persian Letters: Can you tell me something about yourself and describe how you came to join the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization?

Abdollatif Shadvari: My name is Abdollatif Shadvari, I’m from Baluchistan. I’ve been with this organization for 25 years. I joined the MKO from Pakistan and through a friend who has been martyred.
I haven’t had any contact with my family during the [past] 25 years because there was no possibility of contacting them. My family thought I was dead. Using the telephone, mobile phone, Internet, and even listening to radio is forbidden in the organization.
During these 25 years I was under a lot of pressure and I decided to hand myself over to Iraqi forces. I did that two months ago and now I’m at a hotel. I’ve been in touch with the Red Cross and also with the Iraqi government. I hope to go to another country.

Persian Letters: Do you know which country you might go to? What will be your situation once you get there?

Shadvari: I’m supposed to discuss it with the Red Cross and the United Nations. The issue is, as [MKO leader Massoud] Rajavi has said many times, whoever wants to escape from Ashraf will be punished with death and execution. Not only me, but many of my friends who are now in Ashraf don’t have the possibility to leave the camp. Escape is the only way.
Escaping from there requires two or three months of preparation. I thought a lot about it and planned it so I could finally escape. [MKO leaders] always tell us: "You can’t enter any [other] country. Ashraf is the only place you have."

Persian Letters: Are you saying that some people are held in Ashraf against their will? They’re forced to stay there?

Shadvari: Yes, many are under pressure. They’re worried about their future; they don’t know what will be with them. I call on the Red Cross and international organizations to talk with each of the camp residents individually. This issue must be solved and the bloodshed must be stopped.

Persian Letters: Why do you think the MKO wants to keep people in Camp Ashraf? Why don’t they let those who don’t want to be there go?

Shadvari: It’s obvious. If people [leave Ashraf], the organization will fall apart, there won’t be any Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization anymore.

Persian Letters: Are you married?

Shadvari: No. I was 15 when I joined the organization. Now I’m 40.

Persian Letters: Why didn’t you get married? Was it your choice?

Shadvari: Getting married is banned in Camp Ashraf. Not only getting married, but talking to women is banned.

Golnaz Esfandiari, Persian letters, Radio Free Europe

April 24, 2011 0 comments

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MKO defectors offered suicide option

A Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) defector says any member of the terrorist group who wishes to leave has no choice but to commit suicide with a cyanide pill.
Having lived in misery and under pressure for many years, Sanjabi surrendered herself to the Iraqi forces deployed near the camp last week.
Speaking at a press conference at the Iraqi Defense Ministry in Baghdad on Tuesday, former MKO member Maryam Sanjabi said, “When I was appointed as a senior member of the MKO leadership council, I was told that I could never leave the organization. Otherwise, I had to kill myself by taking a cyanide pill.

“It is a custom within the organization to exterminate its defectors. Such a measure on occasions has been emphasized by [MKO leader] Massoud Rajavi. Two members of the MKO leadership council were killed some 2 years ago when they wanted to desert the organization.”

“Even some members of MKO leadership council are currently held in captivity in Camp Ashraf because they have sought to defect. MKO members are afraid to disclose what is happening to them for fear of their lives.”

Having lived in misery and under pressure for many years, Sanjabi surrendered herself to the Iraqi forces deployed near the camp last week.

"None of the residents of Camp Ashraf have the right to contact their families… The only thing that can separate a member from the MKO is death," she said.

"The leaders of the camp have spent millions of dollars to train the residents of the camp on how to launch attacks and even encounter the Iraqi security forces," Sanjabi added.

On Tuesday, three MKO defectors gave an account of their ordeals during their stay at Camp Ashraf in Iraq.

The spokesperson of the Iraqi Defense Ministry, General Mohammed al-Askari, said in a Tuesday press conference in Baghdad that the three former MKO members had escaped from Camp Ashraf and surrendered to the Iraqi security forces, a Press TV correspondent reported.
The official said that the defectors have provided the Iraqi government with the evidence required to shut down the camp according to international law.

The former members of the terrorist group say the residents of Camp Ashraf are totally cut off from the outside world and are often tortured and traumatized for any show of dissent. Consequently, they are afraid to escape.

Abdullatif Shadvari, a former MKO member, who escaped from the camp two months ago, earlier said, “The punishment of those who try to escape from Camp Ashraf… is execution.”

On April 8, at least 34 people were reportedly killed in clashes between Iraqi security forces and MKO members residing in Camp Ashraf.

Iraqi forces say there is evidence that the people have been killed by the organization itself.
On April 11, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the cabinet is determined to shut down the camp.

The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and set up Camp Ashraf in Diyala Province near the Iranian border.

More than 3,000 MKO members are residing at the camp. In addition, the MKO sends elements to Iran on spy and terrorist missions.

The organization is also known to have cooperated with Saddam in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.

The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community, and is responsible for numerous terrorist acts against both Iranians and Iraqis.

Iran has repeatedly called on the Iraqi government to expel the group, but the US has been blocking the group’s expulsion by pressuring Baghdad against such a move.

April 21, 2011 0 comments

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