Khomeini regime condemned by tribunal
AN independent inquiry has called on the United Nations to investigate the “systematic and widespread” murder of political opponents by Ayatollah Khomeini’s regime in Iran during the 1980s.
In its judgment at the end of a three-day session in The Hague, the Iran tribunal found that the Islamic regime had committed “gross human rights abuses” including torture, sexual violence, extra-judicial executions and unjust imprisonment.
The ruling is the culmination of a five-year cooperation between international human rights lawyers, exiled Iranians and relatives of the victims. As many as 20,000 people, mainly youths, are believed to have been killed in the state’s prisons during that decade.
About 75 witnesses, many surviving detainees, gave evidence — some in person, others via videolink.
In his closing speech, the British international lawyer Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, the tribunal’s prosecutor, said the graves of the executed stretched “as far as the eye can see; the gravedigger of Shiraz reported the delivery of 60 bodies on a single occasion, of victims at most 20 years old.
“Men were arrested at 10 in the morning and were dead by 11; entire families were eliminated …Truckloads of bodies were tipped into mass graves … In no case was an execution ordered in accordance with due process.
“There has been not one witness who was not tortured in prison, both physically and mentally. Prisoners were hanged from the ceiling by their arms, flogged on the soles of their feet, beaten, deprived of sleep, kept in solitary confinement, subjected to mock executions and forced to watch other prisoners being tortured — or were tortured in the presence of their children.
“Shokufeh Sakhi told the tribunal how she was subjected to sensory deprivation in a dark box (the ‘coffin’) for hours on end, month after month. The general effect was to turn prisoners into zombies by destroying their senses of self and dignity.”
Prisoners’ families were forced to pay for the bullets used to shoot their loved ones and assaulted when they tried to hold mourning services, the tribunal heard.
Gravestones were smashed; mothers were refused the right to recover their children’s bodies.
In its judgment, the Iran tribunal found that the Islamic Republic of Iran bears absolute responsibility for gross violations of human rights against its citizens and “crime
s against humanity under customary international law as applicable to Iran in the 1980s”.
Among its recommendations, the tribunal called on the human rights council of the United Nations to establish a commission of inquiry to investigate “these atrocities”.
— The Guardian, London
The truth must be brought out and made public
Another Islamic Republic
Iran will hopefully mature into a better country.
Khomeini purged Iran of a parisitic monarchical system that served US and British interests at the expense of Iranian interests. The westerners are still chafing at their humiliation at the hands of the Islamic Revolution of Iran.
Let the British cheif prosecutor hear it loud and clear: The Islamic Republic of Iran is one of the strongest countries in the world and is here to stay. His country has lost its empire, cannot plunder nations and is now bankrupt. We would like to put them on trial for hanging our ancestors from the trees of Delhi in 1857.
The worst and crook man of Europe like Blair who is responsible for a crime against humanity on the basis of lies and dodgy dosiers should be brought to justice instead of making him a representative of palastinain or middl East peacemaker.The west is mocking international community on the basis of deception and mockery.
As the writer has submitted evidences that can not be denied, Khomeini regime was involved to deny freedom of expression of views and mass killing of human beings. There should have justice and freedom to all everywhere. Iran do not accept such comments in media that have reason and logic and for that Iran has no logic and reason to deny.
I am not in a favour of Iran but you should open your eyes and look at Iran and all the countries of the world, US,CIA,Zionist Regime has involvement in his foriegn policies,Secret Agencies,Media,Political Parties,Government etc Iran is the only country where US,CIA,Zionist Regime,Nato,Israel can’t imagine about involving in their matters.
Have the tribunal also heard the other side or it was a one sided affair ?
It seems a plot to awake dead green movement/anti revolution elements. After Syria (If it falls and inshAllah Syria will never fall) their next target is Iran and if Western media is propagating something that means they are creating pre-insurgency environment. They want to repeat Syrian episode in Iran as well. They have got enough alCIAida paid terrorists to fight proxy wars, their natural ally Jundullah is already working against Islamic Republic. But they must know, neither Syria is Libya nor Iran would be…. no more NATO backed revolution.
and anyone who thinks there is some kind of investigation going on, he/she must know that it’s just another evil plot. there was no crime so what investigation r they talking about? and an investigation by imperialists bitch UNO would never ever be acceptable.
And they (the disbelievers) planned, and Allah planned too Verily Allah is the best of the planners.
I am not surprised of such a report which is based on bias feeling against Ayatollah Khomeini and his then regime. For clean up, hard steps were required which the then regime took. Today Iran is a better country than so many countries specially when compared to Muslim Countries.
I am not surprised.
The regime must have been very paranoid about a counter revolution.