Dozens Killed at Camp Ashraf Clash

Iraqi forces attack Mojahedin Khalgh base

CNN: Iranian exiles in Iraq said Friday that Iraqi security forces invaded their refugee camp and killed at least 31 people. Hundreds more were injured in the assault at Camp Ashraf, the People's Mujahedeen of Iran said. Iraqi army officials in Diyala province confirmed there was a conflict overnight but said they did not use live ammunition. The officials said Ashraf residents armed with shovels and throwing stones approached longstanding Iraqi positions around the camp and provoked the conflict. Ashraf residents and their supporters are calling the event a "massacre." >>>














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Joe L.

Die terrorists, die

by Joe L. on

If you want mercy on them then you should want mercy on members of Alqaida. Both should be destroyed in any way or form.


deev

Payback is a bitch!

by deev on

Awwww, did y'all think getting in bed with Saddam and killing your own people was going to end well? Karma (just like Mariam Rajavi) is a bitch!


Ari Siletz

IRI claims US cooperated

by Ari Siletz on

 Excerpt: 

 

پس از اعلام حکم دادگاه عراق مبنی بر اخراج منافقین از این کشور و بعد از اخطارهای مکرر دولت عراق به منافقین برای ترک خاک عراق و عدم توجه این گروهک به تذکرات داده شده، سرانجام ارتش عراق صبح امروز (جمعه) اقدام عملی را در اخراج منافقین به کار بست.

به گزارش انتخاب به نقل از فارس، پس از اعلام حکم دادگاه عراق مبنی بر اخراج منافقین از این کشور و تأکید قانون اساسی این کشور مبنی بر غیرقانونی بودن حضور این فرقه در عراق و پس از اخطارهای مکرر دولت عراق به منافقین و عدم توجه این گروهک به تذکرات داده شده، سرانجام ارتش عراق با هماهنگی نیروهای آمریکایی دست به تحرک جدی در این زمینه زد و برای اخراج منافقین از پادگان اشرف دست به عملیات زد.

منبع

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Reportedly, US observers who had gone to monitor the situation pulled out from Ashraf just before the attack.

source. US Committee for Camp Ashraf.


Esfand Aashena

When confronting people with bullets been a solution?!

by Esfand Aashena on

Well!  JJJ we're not living in a perfect world!  There are 3 wars going on in ME as we speak.  Several other countries, including Iran, are confronting their own citizens with bullets.  

Iraqis confronting Iranians inside their own country when this group has a very shady past about torturing Iraqis and confronting Iraqis with bullets, is not on the top of condemnation list of the international community!

Camp Ashraf needs to be closed.  Red Cross can't even get inside the camp to interview the residents and find out who wants to get out.  I have only seen few print reports and pictures about inside the Camp that MKO has allowed.  Have you seen TV reports anywhere? 

Everything is sacred


Jahanshah Javid

bottom line

by Jahanshah Javid on

they are unarmed and confronting them with bullets can't and shouldn't be the solution.


Anonymous Observer

Actually, SK, that's a good suggestion

by Anonymous Observer on

I personally think that these people need to be taken out of Iraq under UN supervision and taken to a safe place where they can be de-programmed from the cult mindset.  Rajavi and the his wife should be put on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity, both in Iraq and Iran-when Iran has a decent government with an independent judiciary (and also for creating this death cult).


Esfand Aashena

Human Rights Watch report from "inside" Camp Ashraf.

by Esfand Aashena on

Here look at this report by Human Rights Watch about conditions inside Camp Ashraf and testimonial about those who left Iraq through Abu Gharib of all places.

Sure the murder of 21 MKO supporters should be comdemned, even though I have no idea who those 21 supporters were.  But what about the conditions inside the camp?  Do we look at this situation with "one" eye open?!

//www.hrw.org/legacy/backgrounder/mena/iran0505/

Also I think the link below is one of the first articles that appeared in i.com when Camp Ashraf in Iraq became an issue.  About the same time testimonials were published by those who had left the camp when red cross and human rights groups got involved.

//iranian.com/main/2008/camp-ashraf 

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Soosan Khanoom

I wonder .....

by Soosan Khanoom on

Where are Maryam " the  President "and Masoud " the leader "? 

Are they in camp Asraf? Or are they in south France? 

And how long more are they willing to brainwash these poor people?  

I suggest transfer their members to a Rehab center in Caribbean and let them breath some fresh air may then they come back to their senses and start to live rather than die for Maryam and Rajavi .....

Then have both Maryam and Rajavi sent to Guantánamo Bay.......  !!

 

 


Anonymous Observer

EA - I actually don't like that debate - What I'm trying

by Anonymous Observer on

to point out is that when Iranians are being killed, we don't hear a peep out of the usual suspects who tear themselves up over Israel / Palestine.  The "citizens of the world" were also tearing themselves apart when the nine Turks died on that ship.  

It doesn't matter where these people are.  They're Iranians, and they are defenseless.  They are victims of a cult more than anything else.  

PS- if you think I like that debate, point out to one thread about that issue in which I participated.   


Esfand Aashena

AO about Palestinians and MKO.

by Esfand Aashena on

Just for the sake of argument, the "citizens of the world" condemn Israel when they attack Palestinians in their "own" homes.  Here MKO are in someone else's home AND they don't have any claim to that piece of land other than they want to be there until the Islamic Republic goes and then they want to go to Iran.

Besides their atrocities during Saddam to Iraqis (not to Iranians) are not to be forgotten, not to mention their system of not letting those who want to leave Iraq leave.

By no means I want another Israel and Palestinian debate but you seem to like that debate! 

Everything is sacred


Esfand Aashena

JJJ you can't always depend on the "international community".

by Esfand Aashena on

International Community! 

Don't you think the international community, including US, has already tried to do something about the residents of camp Ashraf?  Don't you think they've already been warning that this sort of thing would happen?  Hasn't it happened before?  Isn't this the 3rd time or more? 

Some of these residents are already citizens of other countries.  Several from Canada but somehow they don't want to move.  

I have a feeling if they stay at some point they are going to be rounded up and put in buses and given choices of which "border".  Iran, Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait or Persian Gulf.  They'll just drive them up and release them at the border and let the neighboring countries take them as prisoners or refugees.  Perhaps the international community can help them at that time. 

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Anonymous Observer

Where are our resident humanitarian "citizens of the world?"

by Anonymous Observer on


I'm not an MKO fan by any stretch of imagination but where are our resident "citizens of the world" to condemn this inhumane and barbaric attack against defenseless people?

Ooops...I forgot...the people who were being attacked were not Palestinians....sorry.... 


Jahanshah Javid

recipe for disaster

by Jahanshah Javid on

you have an Iraqi government that has no sympathy for the Mojahedin and wants them out of Iraqi soil at any cost -- even if they have to kill many MKO supporters. then you have an MKO leadership that encourages their followers to resist at any cost -- even if they get killed. add them together and you have a bloody tragedy. whatever you may think of the Mojahedin, the action taken by the Iraqis is nothing but bloody murder. the international community MUST step in and negotiate a compromise, including the transfer of the camp residents to other countries.


ishallmakeyouperplexed

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by ishallmakeyouperplexed on


I don't understand why they didn't transition out of Ashraf earlier. They must've known that American influence in Iraq would have waned eventually and orders in Baghdad would be coming from Tehran. The only reason I can think of is that they were literally trapped in the borders of Iraq, and couldn't really do much anything. I think this only means that the I.R. is now a little bit stronger.