Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

MEK operatives attack Iranian reporter in Rome

The anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCRI) threatened to kill a reporter of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) in Rome. MEK operatives attack Iranian reporter in Rome

According to a report by the IRIB, the reporter was attacked and insulted by apparently an MKO member and received a death threat when he wanted to park his car near his office in Rome.

The attacker, who had chased the IRIB reporter, neared his car and insulted him and then attacked him to stop the reporter from calling the Italian police.

The MKO, founded in the 1960s, blended elements of Islamism and Stalinism and participated in the overthrow of the US-backed Shah of Iran in 1979. Ahead of the revolution, the MKO conducted attacks and assassinations against both Iranian and Western targets.

The group started assassination of the citizens and officials after the revolution in a bid to take control of the newly-established Islamic Republic. It killed several of Iran’s new leaders in the early years after the revolution, including the then President, Mohammad Ali Rajayee, Prime Minister, Mohammad Javad Bahonar and the Judiciary Chief, Mohammad Hossein Beheshti who were killed in bomb attacks by MKO members in 1981.

The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.

The terrorist group joined Saddam’s army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran.

Since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, the group, which now adheres to a pro-free-market philosophy, has been strongly backed by neo-conservatives in the United States, who argued for the MKO to be taken off the US terror list.

The US formally removed the MKO from its list of terror organizations in early September, one week after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent the US Congress a classified communication about the move. The decision made by Clinton enabled the group to have its assets under US jurisdiction unfrozen and do business with American entities, the State Department said in a statement at the time.

April 18, 2013 0 comments

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MKO’s online fundraising; an approach to money laundering

Mujahedin-e Khalq organization (MK MKO's online fundraising; an approach to money laundering O, a.k.a. MEK and NCRI) has launched a page on its website recently, which is dedicated to receiving money from the website visitors titled as “donation”.

This seems to be a notable act since MKO’s traditional approaches of fundraising in the European countries still stand on place. These fundraisings are usually undertaken under the cover of charity works and titled as “social-financial” activities. The group’s TV channel also launches programs named “collaboration” to achieve the same goal.

Many former MKO members, who have defected from the cult, believe the money that the MKO receives from such activities, is not sufficient even for covering a small part of the group’s expenses; recruiting lobbyists from around the world, organizing various conferences on different occasions and the money spent on other activities to promote their goals, are just a portion of their costs. MKO's online fundraising; an approach to money laundering

On the other side, knowing the cult doesn’t enjoy the support of a lot of people who are willing to financially support it, and also that most of their supporters are living outside Iran and it has been a long time since they have been made to pay the group an amount of money monthly, a question is raised about the nature of such an activity at this moment.

There is an initial assumption which is mainly coming from the cult’s critics and its defected members, which is that after Saddam’s fall and the cessation of Ba’ath regime’s financial support, the MKO is now facing a financial crisis and is trying to compensate for it in every possible way including the online fundraising.

But as mentioned before, since the MKO doesn’t enjoy the public support, it won’t be able to raise much money through this means. Although it is a fact that the MKO is suffering from a financial crisis, it doesn’t seem the main reason behind the group’s online fundraising is dealing with the crisis.

On the other hand, since it is possible to create various virtual accounts using different IPs from several countries in the internet, and there are many complicated ways to make the donors look a lot, online fundraising is a good approach for covering the cult’s money laundering activities and also a good way to hide the real sources where the MKO is receiving its money from.

One of the most challenging problems the MKO is now facing, is that the group’s bank accounts and financial transactions are under constant surveillance in Europe and that is why the cult’s ringleaders are trying out all the possible ways to hide their sources of receiving money which are mainly composed of smuggling and illegal businesses.

April 10, 2013 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

MKO not able to whitewash its bloody history- Part2

Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution in which the early Mujahedin Khalq had an almost active part, the MKO broke with the newly established Islamic government. The leader of the Islamic government of Iran viewed them as hypocrites who mixed Shiites Islam with Marxism, "a bizarre mixture". The survivor of the MKO leaders Massoud Rajavi who could not find any part in the post revolutionary Iranian politics declared armed struggle against Islamic Republic on June 20,1981. The alleged 500,000 MKO supporters launched mass demonstrations in Iranian cities announcing their ruthless armed warfare against the government using cold and warm weapons such as guns, knives, cutters and screwdrivers. The date which signified a turning point in the history of the group is annually celebrated by the MKO propaganda. Every year, the group holds events spending large amounts of money to glorify the start of its violent opposition against its nation.

About a week later, on June28 a massive explosion occurred at the headquarters of the Islamic Republic Party, killing over seventy two high ranking officials of the Iranian government including Chief Justice Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, four cabinet ministers (Health, Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Ministers), twenty–seven parliament members and several other government officials (according to Wikipedia).The June 28th bombing was called “Haft-e-Tir” (Tir 7th,1360/ Iranian calendar) incident by the Iranian people. Haft-e-Tir was the beginning point of the serial assassination of the Iranian officials. Two months after Haft-e-Tir, on August 30 another bomb was detonated at the office of the Prime Minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar killing him and the president Mohammad Ali Rajaie. By the way Massoud Rajavi’s violent strategy did not succeed to overthrow the Islamic Republic although a large number of the authorities were victimized by his violent terror campaign that was supposed to take over the Iranian government in 3 months.

Ali Ferasati is a former member of the MKO and the writer of the book "Peaceful Struggle, Both Strategy and Tactic” in which he condemns MKO’s violent strategy. He believes that leftist Iranians especially Mujahedin Khalq never sought peaceful solutions for the critical situation of the post revolutionary Iranian society. “Ultimately, struggle for power and the will of violent movements ended with the massacre of June 20th 1981,” Ferasati writes. “Every year in the anniversary of June 20th, the MKO launches large scale propaganda saying ‘June 20th is unquestionable’,’June 28th is unquestionable ‘.Using the term unquestionable originates in their totalitarian thinking; in today’s modern world everything is changing and relative, nothing is excluded from doubt.” (Ferasati, Ali, Peaceful struggle, Both Strategy and Tactic, P.70 and 71, in Persian)

Regarding the Haft-e-Tir bombing, Ali Ferasati writes:”The bomb used to explode Islamic Republic Party office was made of “Compressed Gas’ that had been previously invented by the United States but the Soviet Union had also achieve the technology shortly after the US. Immediately after the explosion the Soviet Union accused the US of committing the terror act because it wanted to convince the world that only the US had had the technology. It should be noted that in 1981 in a private meeting in Paris, Massoud Rajavi said that he didn’t own the technology for that explosion. Building such a complicated bomb was absolutely out of the abilities of a militant group.” Ferasati concludes that the bomb was granted to the MKO by the Soviets asking the audience this crucial question :" Did the Soviet promise them to achieve the power in Iran in three months?" (ibid, P.71)

Ferasati’s argument is not far from reality. The relations between the MKO and Russian KGB during the Cold War continued even after the revolution and during the MKO’s presence in Iraqi territory granted to them by Saddam Hussein. The following is the document released of the archives of the Soviet State microfilm collection:

Reel 1.993, File 24

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a response to a letter from M. Rajavi, leader of the Mujahedin [Holy Warriors] Organization of the Iranian People, to M. Gorbachev, and to a request submitted by the organization; two copies of instructions to the Soviet Embassy in Bulgaria to be delivered in ciphered form by the Committee for State Security (KGB); extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department; letter to Gorbachev from Rajavi (translated into Russian) and the original letter in Persian; statement with information about the collection of documents attached to the letter from Rajavi; memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from F. Olfat, member of the Politburo of the Mujahedin Organization, and the original letter in Persian requesting that the TsK KPSS lend any amount of money (up to US$300,000,000) to the Mujahedin Organization; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Olfat, (translated into Russian) and the original letter in Persian requesting that the supporters of the Mujahedin Organization be allowed to cross the Soviet-Iranian border and be granted a temporary asylum in the Soviet Union 1985 December – 1986 February (oac.cdlib.org)

In the critical condition of the Iranian society after the 1979 revolution, the militant groups like the MKO got ready for violence very soon. They had no idea of developing the society both politically and socially instead of resorting to terror. The MKO leader Massoud Rajavi was a power thirsty who wanted “Everything”.

By Mazda Parsi

April 9, 2013 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Suppression of Kurds, MKO Crime against Humanity

After more than six years of hard efforts by the Kurdocide Organization and many other supporters, in early December 2012, the Swedish Parliament in a majority vote formally recognized the Anfal Operation, launched by ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam against the Kurds in the late 1980s, as genocide and crimes against humanity. The Anfal Operation refers to the deadly attacks on the Kurds in the final stages of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, which included Saddam’s use of poison gas to decimate inhabitants of the Kurdish town of Halabja.

Just about three weeks after the justly made decision, some defected members of the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO, MEK, PMOI, NCR) voiced their preparedness to give a testimony before the Swedish parliament about MKO’s key role in the massacre of Iraqi Kurds during the rule of the ousted Saddam. Reportedly, through last few weeks the Swedish Parliament is working to also officially recognize this joint Saddam-MKO military plot, called Operation Morvarid (Pearl), as another crime against the Iraqi Kurds.

The presence of MKO in Iraq for the accomplishment of joint strategic objectives in line with local and regional transitions expanded MKO-Saddam coalition far beyond a simple collaboration that ended in an ideological unity. The extent of their cooperation covered a broad range of issues, but here the focus is on the role of Mojahedin in the bloody suppression of Iraqi Kurds that made many internal and external critics to strongly disapprove of the heinous crime as a blatant violation a nation’s rights.

Besides many documentaries and confessions of the eye-witnesses, the Department of State in a 1992 report has clearly stated that “The NLA’s last major offensive reportedly was conducted against Iraqi Kurds in 1991, when it joined Saddam Hussein’s brutal repression of the Kurdish rebellion”. The fact is also stated in The State Department Office of the Coordinator for Counter-terrorism when it released the list of designated terrorist organizations; “The MEK’s relationship with the former Iraqi regime continued through the 1990s. In 1991, the group reportedly assisted in the Iraqi Republican Guard’s bloody crackdown on Iraqi Shia and Kurds who rose up against Saddam Hussein’s regime. Press reports cite MEK leader Maryam Rajavi encouraging MEK members to “take the Kurds under your tanks”. Elizabeth Rubin of the New York Times quoted former members of MKO on Mariam Rajavi’s commandment: “Take the Kurds under your tanks, and save your bullets for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards”.

There are more than enough evidences that corroborate MKO’s collaboration in suppression of the Kurds and even the group’s own high-ranking insiders have vehemently insisted on the necessity of the joint operation although hardly making any direct reference to the Kurds-killing crime. For instance, Bijan Niyabati, the detached leftist ideologue still a zealous supporter indirectly writing in behalf of MKO, has referred to the key role MKO played in Operation Morvarid and its necessity. He points to the fact that MKO took part in this operation as a token of their gratitude to the regime of Saddam Hussein and also in order to win his absolute trust:

“The Operation Morvarid may be considered as a remarkable military and political victory for Mojahedin as well. Morvarid stabilized MKO’s stance on Iraqi soil. Both Iraqi regime, somehow owing its survival to the presence and resistance of Mojahedin, and Mojahedin, for the first time making alliance with a regional and strategic ally tolerating one of the extraordinary revolutionary and radical organizations that is a remnant of the cold war era and bears to pay the regional as well as international costs of such an alliance, see in each other the features of a strategic ally. Mojahedin proved to be not only a trustful ally but also accounted as a parameter of power in regional fluctuations.” (A Different Look at Mojahedin’s Internal Revolution, p. 108)

Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait had the consequent international reactions. Saddam’s suppression of Iraqi Shi’it and Kurd insurgents caused widespread internal backlashes against Saddam’s regime that lost its control over a number of cities and angry dissidents began to march towards Baghdad. Located in the northern region, Rajavi’s forces could well help Saddam to impede the advance of the uprising people. Receiving the order, Rajavi launched the Operation Morvarid (Pearl) to suppress the insurgents. The bloodshed sent many Iraqi Shi’ts and Kurds to their death and Rajavi justified the operation as a self-defense but he never explained the reason and logic behind the involvement of MKO in Iraq’s internal affairs and suppression of Saddam’s opponents.

January 31, 2013 0 comments

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We witnessed the massacre of Kurds by MKO

Open letter to the Swedish parliament

Dear Mr Per Westerberg, President of the Swedish Parliament We witnessed the massacre of Kurds by MKO

Members of the Swedish Parliament

Ladies and gentlemen, we are a few long serving ex-members of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (aka; MKO, MEK, NCRI) who have been in Mojahedin Khalq prisons because of our disagreements with the ideology and the policies of the organisation. We have all been humiliated and undergone physical and psychological tortures while inside and even after being let out of the MEK prisons. We only managed to free ourselves from the claws of the Mojahedin Khalq after the fall of the infamous dictator regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

In 1991 we witnessed the biggest co-operation between the leaders of the Mojahedin Khalq, Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, with the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein.

In a time that the Kurdish people had the chance of taking advantage of the weakness of the suppressive apparatus of Saddam. In that year when the military machine of Saddam Hussein had been severely weakened by the American forces in the first Persian Gulf war. The Kurdish forces had the best opportunity to move towards Baghdad and topple the regime of Saddam.

In March 1991 Massoud and Maryam Rajavi gave the order to massacre the Kurds with the heavy weapons given to them by Saddam and therefore stopped the Kurds from reaching Baghdad. This massacre of the Kurds is the most disgusting and shameful part of the history of this terrorist organisation during its entire existence.

The Swedish Parliament has accepted in the last few weeks to officially recognise the reality of the suffering of the Kurdish people of Iraq carried out by the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation in 1991. We believe that this just and humanitarian gesture should not be left unnoticed. We believe that other European countries should now pass similar resolutions and show their solidarity and respect for the people of Kurdistan.

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

We are a few long serving ex-members of Mojahedin Khalq Organisation who have managed to survive after the fall of Saddam Hussein and now live in European countries. We are living witnesses of the crimes the Mojahedin Khalq have committed in 1991. We urge you to allow us to present ourselves to your parliament and let you know what we have seen with our own eyes. In doing so we are sure that many other aspects of this horrifying crime would be revealed.

Faryade Azadi Association

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January 30, 2013 0 comments

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Journalist Condemns MKO for Inflicting Irreparable Damage on Muslim Community

An Algerian journalist said the crimes of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as the MEK, NCR and PMOI) will not fade away from the memories of the Iranian nation, Journalist Condemns MKO for Inflicting Irreparable Damage on Muslim Community Muslims and the Arab world.

Speaking in an interview with the Habilian Association, human rights NGO formed of the families of Iranian terror victims, Dr. Yahya Abu Zakaria pointed to the crimes of the MKO against Iranian scholars and intellectuals, and said, "These martyrs were the ones who helped Imam Khomeini establish the Islamic Revolution."

Referring to the lack of such great figures of Islamic Revolution as Ayatollah Dastgheib and Ayatollah Dr. Beheshti, Dr. Abu Zakaria said, "The nascent Islamic government needed every one of these individuals, as it takes a long time for a person to become a scholar, but the Monafeqin (Hypocrites, a term used for MKO in Iran and Iraq) assassinate these scholars to deprive the Iranian people of their knowledge and hinder the (Iranian) government from propagating Islamic thoughts."

The political analyst described MKO’s crimes as "unforgivable", and said, "We, as the Islamic Ummah, will prosecute them (MKO members) should the Iranian nation not take a legal action against them, as their crimes were not only against the Iranian people, but against the Muslim Ummah."

"They robbed the Ummah of great scholars and indefatigable Ulama who were melted into Allah’s divine essence and gave away their lives to provide Islamic epistemic theories," he added. "Thus, they have stood against the Islamic culture and civilization."

He added that he has seen the MKO members in Europe distributing anti-Iran leaflets, saying, "I’ve told them: Shame on you, that you’ve resorted to the western countries to overthrow your regime, which is the only regime in the world who has extended his hand to every country for cooperation."

During the early years of the Islamic Revolution, MKO assassinated a number of great Muslim scholars whose presence were a threat to the Islamic-Marxist guerrilla group. Among these scholars, one can refer to Ayatollah Seyed Abdolhossein Dastgheib, assassinated on December 11, 1981, when he along with his companions were heading to Shiraz main mosque to perform the Friday congressional prayers by a female member of the MKO.

Another great Muslim scholar, Ayatollah Ashrafi Esfahani, who led the Friday prayers in Kermanshah, was assassinated when a MKO-linked suicide-bomber embraced him during he Friday prayers and pulled the pin of a hand grenade.

January 24, 2013 0 comments

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MKO and the Demonizing Campaign

Nobody is immune from the threatening, anti-human, cultic practices of MKO

Everybody is curious as to why any defected member and escapee from MKO happen to be an Nobody is immune from the threatening, anti-human, cultic practices of MKO agent of Iranian regime whenever the organization ever publicizes the news of some defection itself. The announcement does not appear just after the escape or defection but months and even years later and after the group fails to come to terms with the defected to stop him/her talking out. The stigma, MKO believes, on the one hand will possibly neutralize the disclosures and on the other, hand will boost a propaganda battle to talk big of its intelligence potentiality in detecting the infiltrated agents. Thus, it may appear to many as a never-ending battle between MKO and Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and security; and of course the more secretive and sophisticated the ministry is depicted the more capable its rival can be proclaimed.

But there are other reasons for MKO to enter a demonizing campaign against the regime’s security apparatus. Majority of the ranking members who leave MKO have been aware of hypocrisy and corruption within the group and majority are victims of cultic abuses themselves. However, as they have maintained an element of independence and some connection with their old values, they consider it a responsibility to become a volunteer to disclose facts long concealed from the public under a variety of pseudo social and democratic activities. Naturally, unable to provide justifiable responses to what MKO claims allegations against it, the group directs countless hateful attacks and attempts at character assassination of the defected members. The smear and character assassination campaign against dissidents further ensures that the exposé continues with full force.

That is why MKO was among the firsts to publicize the report by the Library of Congress report on Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security and to translate its parts, particularly those concerning MKO and ex-members, into other languages to be circulated in a variety of affiliated web-sites and blogs. Although the report itself blends fact and fiction, a look at the given references leaves no doubt that either MKO has been tasked with the responsibility to prepare the report or has acted as a close consultant in preparation. Typically, whenever a disclosure is made by some defected member, MKO call it a slander against the group and a work of individuals who officially work with the regime. To look at it through the eyes of MKO and its leaders, anybody who is against the group is an agent of Iranian regime, that is to say all Iranian people but the group’s members and sympathizers. They include even the families who insist to see their relatives and children held against their will by the group.

To have a real understanding of the intra-organizational behaviors and principles within MKO in relation with the defection of members, the split and runaway of a member, and the ranking members in particular, is considered an unforgivable sin since the escapes have always faced the group with serious challenges. That is mainly because they make the closed group vulnerable to outsiders’ scrutiny. As a rule, the members are organized into teams and units each headed and controlled by a loyal ranking who is directly responsible for the deeds of his subordinates and their defections and escapes since they impose considerable political costs on the organization due to the fact that it would be hard to figure how much information is disclosed by the defected and to whom. Even the rank-and-files are under tight control if they turn to be willing to leave. To tell the truth, neither the insiders nor the ex-members as the outsiders are immune from the threatening, anti-human, cultic practices of MKO. It is a global threat and problem to be dealt with.

January 13, 2013 0 comments

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MKO crisis Mongering

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January 8, 2013 0 comments

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MEK, a hated entity in the view of Iranians

MEK and other anti-Revolutionary groups has launched attempts to wield their impact on the upcoming Presidential Elections in Iran, to be held in June 2013. Other groups inside Iran have shown their interest in elections, though.

According to this report, members of MEK, a terrorist group, entered Iran illegally and were doing sabotage and terrorists acts during the street uprisings in Iranian 2009 presidential elections. They launched an attempt to extend the riots.

Mujahedin-e-Khalq, also known as Monafeqin, have committed more than 19,157 murders of Iranian citizens since 1979. They also have killed 5 US militaries.

Iran Khabar Agency is one of the news agencies of the MEK terrorist group, which, during 2009 Iranian presidential elections, reported false stories about the elections with the objective of spoiling image of Iran in international scene.

This website has been active since recent few months and published reports about 2009 presidential elections provocative stuff about upcoming elections. In one such act, the terrorist group has contacted citizens in Tehran as polling institutes and made proactive questions as ‘ was 2009 presidential elections a fraud?’, or ‘ do you think that, if your favorite candidate is not elected, will you go to the streets and protest?’.

U.S. and Canada delisted the terrorist organization from their terrorist list despite their red pages of crime against more than 19,000 Iranians. This provides opportunity for MEK to act freely against Iranian government and people.

MEK is such a hated entity in the view of Iranians, that even Iranian opposition groups deny their relationship with MEK.

January 6, 2013 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

The Democracy on Mass Graves

Discovered mass graves are a miniature sample of MKO’s democracy in a greater world

Just after the downfall of Saddam, the Iraqi dictator, tens of mass graves were discovered around The Democracy on Mass Graves Iraq, where thousands of Iraqis had been buried after apparent mass executions. The discovered graves accounted for a plainly shocking fact that how Saddam got rid of his opponents with no sense of remorse or mercy. And now after the evacuation of Camp Ashraf, a bastion for his mercenary forces, additional dimensions of crimes committed by his mercenaries have been unearthed.

The latest reports endorse that the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI/NCR), known as witting accomplices in Saddam’s crimes, have been talented students of the late criminal master. As an Iraqi official says, several mass graves have been unearthed in Camp Ashraf. Reportedly stressed by Sadeq al-Husseini, the deputy chairman of Diyala’s provincial council, the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights is in charge of determining the identities of the bodies and to whom they belong; Kurds, Arab local residents or else. Regardless of the bodies’ identities, they have been human beings either slaughtered by Saddam, MKO’s forces or in joint operations. In any case, the responsibility is on MKO as it has long been dwelling on the bones of these bodies concealed from the outside and the parents and relatives who never heard any news of them.

The huge controversial feature of the MKO was its decision in 1983 to ally itself with the former Iraqi regime of Saddam. Arriving at an agreement, Massoud Rajavi moved, along with his loyal ring-leaders and majority of his forces, to Baghdad in 1986. Forming the National Liberation Army there with Saddam’s aid, he dispatched his forces to fight alongside Iraqi forces against Iranian troops that led to further diminishing of MKO’s credibility inside Iran. Moreover, a number of Iraqi Shi’ites and Kurdish organizations have alleged that MKO forces played a role in the suppression of the so-called Safar Intifada of March 1991 against the former Iraqi regime.

MKO’s collaboration with Saddam against Iraqi people exerted a dramatic impact on the group’s internal relation that led to serious inter-organizational problems as well as external challenges. Several dozen members announced their defection and deserted Camp Ashraf protesting among other things the group’s complicity in the suppression of Kurdish and Shi’ite uprisings in the aftermath of the Kuwait war. The arrival of these former members in Europe and their organized attempts at spotlighting the alleged abuses and deviations of the organization, led MKO to intensify its character assassination campaigns against its former members and to label them as the agents working for Iranian regime.

A slew of detentions inside MKO camps and torture at the hands of senior members were also the harsh reaction against the protests. But soon the outside world came to be notified of what was going on within the group when a credible and high-profile human-rights organization for the first time revealed and verified the testimony of the detached members. The 28-page HRW report, “No Exit: Human Rights Abuses Inside the MKO Camps”, details how dissident members of the group were tortured, beaten and held in solitary confinement for years at military camps in Iraq after they criticized the group’s policies.

With the fall of Rajavi’s bastion, the world will see more of the democracy he has promised to establish. These mass graves are just a miniature sample of a future democracy in a greater world. Many facts have already come out and this is not the last one which follows.

January 6, 2013 0 comments

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