Maryam Rajavi:
• This signals a watershed moment
• The time has come for an international investigation
• A sense of global justice has been awakened with regards to the developments in Ashraf and the crimes committed there against humanity
A Spanish Court has accepted complaints filed by families of Camp Ashraf residents against Iraqi authorities responsible for crimes against humanity committed on July 28 and 29 during attacks which led to the killing of 11 residents, who were protected persons under the Fourth Geneva Convention.
The Central Investigative Court of Spain declared in a decision its competence to investigate complaints pertaining to the attack on Camp Ashraf residents, which was accompanied by beatings and using of live ammunitions against them.
Dr. Juan E. Garces has accepted to represent Ashraf residents in court. Dr. Garces is a prominent international jurist and a political advisor to the late Chilean president Salvador Allende who was killed after a coup d’état by Augusto Pinochet. He remained at Allende’s side at the presidential palace until the final moments of his life. Later, Dr. Garces led a judicial investigation against Pinochet and other coup leaders. He is also the author of a large number of books and articles on law and politics.
The Ashraf legal complaint mentions the fact that the Iranian regime was the main proponent of the attack carried out by the Iraqi government and forces in late July. The Iranian regime has been systematically pursuing the elimination of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), and their massacre and genocide. To this effect, the religious decrees issued by the regime’s founder and former supreme leader, Ruhollah Khomeini, as well as those delivered by Sharia judges since the inception of the religious tyranny in Iran in 1979 have been presented as exhibits in the case.
The President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, described the Central Investigative Court of Spain’s ruling on the acceptance of the complaints of Ashraf residents as a watershed moment in the history of suppression and injustice against the residents of Camp Ashraf and warned the current Iraqi administration that: It is now time for an international investigation. A sense of global justice has been awakened with regards to the developments in Ashraf and the crimes against humanity that have been committed there. No longer can daggers and axes be used to harm the residents or armored vehicles be used to drive over them unhindered on the orders and diktats of the malevolent mullahs ruling Iran.
Mrs. Rajavi also warned: Any attacks or abuses against the residents of Ashraf, any type of illegal measure or violation of human rights and the slightest breach of international conventions would now receive an international reaction dozens of times more powerful than in the past. As the Iranian Resistance’s Leader has declared; The PMOI in Ashraf will not abandon their legal rights at any cost. They will continue insisting on their rights as stipulated in international conventions and the April 24th European Parliament resolution until their last breaths.
The key to the Iraqi government’s freedom of action and independence lies in its opposition to the religious fascism ruling Iran and it refusal to kowtow to the pressures and schemes of the Iranian regime, decline serving and accommodating Ali Khamenei and his sidekick Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and avoid besieging and committing crimes against the residents of Ashraf, Mrs. Rajavi stressed.
The Iranian Resistance’s President-elect recalled that: From this point forward, the Iraqi government is free to bring all its allegations and previously announced claims against the PMOI to the attention of an international court and allow this court to make its decision. But, if it refuses to do so, then it would become blatantly obvious that the wave of accusations and lies it resorts to are merely an echo of the trepidation and fear that has engulfed the entire edifice of the clerical regime from the PMOI in Ashraf in the midst of the Iranian people’s uprising.
