Camp Ashraf – Breach of commitments, No. 22
NCRI – On February 12 and 13, the Iraqi forces under the order of the Iraqi Prime Ministry Committee charged with suppression of Ashraf residents, prevented the transfer of patients and wounded who were awaiting surgery or emergency care to Baghdad and Baquba hospitals for third consecutive week. Last week also the Iraqi forces prevented the transfer of 14 emergency patients to hospital.
In all these cases, the appointments for medical check-ups and surgery for these patients were obtained by significant efforts of the residents and the Iraqi forces had agreed to transfer these patients to relevant hospitals in Baghdad. But minutes before the transfer, on the order of the Iraqi committee, they were not given permission to leave Ashraf and were prevented from going to hospital.
These patients are those having cancer, MS, and in need of neurosurgery, kidney, liver and eye surgeries and any delay in their treatment will have irreversible affects on them. Most of them have been waiting for months for surgery and suffer enormous pain. The policy of tormenting patients to death which is imposed by the Iraqi government against Ashraf residents has so far resulted in death of 12 residents.
Meanwhile, past week the Iraqi forces continued stealing the residents’ belongings from Moein complex in the northern section of Ashraf. Eight Iraqi forces loaded goods of this complex, which has been occupied by Iraqi military forces since April 8, 2011, into military trucks and carried them away. The stolen goods include water and gas air conditioners, carpets, chairs, suitcases and personal belongings.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
February 14, 2012
