NCRI – In a flagrant breach of international and Iraqi laws, and agreements with UN and US, the Iraqi government of Nouri al-Maliki has sent away 46 Iraqi buyers of Ashraf residents’ property from Camp Liberty’s entrance gate.
The Iraqi Government of Nouri al-Maliki continues to violate agreements by not allowing merchants to enter Camp Liberty, and is therefore preventing Camp Liberty residents from selling their property at Camp Ashraf.
On December 1 and 2, 2013, an Iraqi officer with a long record of involvement in the torture and killing of the residents, refused entry to six Iraqi merchants who had come to Camp Liberty to sign a contract for purchase of Ashraf property, and hours later he ultimately force them to return.
Ahmed Khozair is one of the murderers of PMOI members in Ashraf and one of the elements responsible for the September 2013 and April 2011 massacres, and who has played a very active role in two years of psychological torture and five years of an inhumane siege against Ashraf and Camp Liberty.
Along with the most recent six merchants, the number of merchants who have been turned away from the entrance gate to Camp Liberty since the month of October has now reached 46.
They were harassed or their mobile phones were taken from them despite the fact that they had all come to Camp Liberty with prior agreements and notices to UNAMI and the Iraqi forces.
The September 5 plan by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), which was prepared with the US Embassy’s agreement, specifies: “The GOI shall allow the residents to sell their property at any time.…. The GOI shall safeguard and guarantee all Camp Ashraf property.”
One day later, US Assistant Secretary of State Beth Jones gave her backing to UNAMI’s plan. In a letter to Mrs Maryam Rajavi, she underlined the agreement and wrote: “The United Nations will help facilitate the safeguarding of the property at Ashraf through your retention of a trusted local security firm. The U.S. Embassy will do its utmost to support these efforts.”
During last three months, not only have none of the items indicated in the plan and stressed in the letter been accomplished, but the Government of Iraq still systematically schemes to steal and expropriate the residents property.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
December 4, 2013
