Despite cold season, no fuel has been allowed into Ashraf for past month
NCRI – As cruel and inhuman siege of Camp Ashraf continues to intensify, the Iraqi forces on Tuesday morning prevented entry of a vehicle carrying essential medicine for the residents of Ashraf, especially for those wounded in July attack and seriously ill.
In an attempt by Ashraf residents, the vehicle returned to the camp in the afternoon but it was stopped again by Iraqi forces and forced to drive away.
Several containers carrying potatoes, vegetables and other food stuff were also prevented from entering the camp on Tuesday. The Iraqi forces said that a representative from the Prime Ministry Committee, which is responsible for suppression of Camp Ashraf, must go from Baghdad to the camp to issue permission to allow food inside.
Additionally, it has been for over a month that no fuel has been allowed into the camp. On November 4, the Iraqi forces arrested the drivers of two fuel tankers going to Ashraf. They were transferred to a prison in the city of Khalis, near Ashraf, and still kept there charged with carrying fuel for Ashraf residents. As temperature falling in the cold season and due to constant power cuts, lack of fuel poses serious threats to Ashraf residents.
During recent weeks, surgeons and specialist physicians had difficulties to go into the camp to carry out surgeries and other treatments needed especially for the wounded and patients with serious ailments. Many of them were not allowed into the camp at all.
Considering the fact that cruel siege on Ashraf and prevention of entry of food, medicine, fuel and medical doctors to the camp are serious cases of war crime and crime against humanity, the Iranian Resistance calls on the United States Ambassador to Iraq and the U.S. forces in that country, the United Nations Secretary General, U.N. Security Council, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Special Representative of the Secretary General for Iraq, United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and all human rights organizations to condemn the criminal siege on Ashraf and take urgent measures to remove it.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 24, 2009
