United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay must then launch a full investigation into the atrocity to bring those responsible to justice, Mr Kouchner told an international conference in Geneva on September 19.
It was the US that brought Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki to power, Mr Kouchner said, but al-Maliki was now doing the bidding of the Iranian regime as the situation in Iraq deteriorated from ‘crime to massacre’.
He said in a speech: “It is a state crime. It is a crime of the prime minister and he must be charged.
“And if the Americans have some honor, they would require that the seven hostages, six women and coincidentally a man, be released and certainly not given to Iran because this would then be the ultimate contradiction.
“So letting the prime minister installed by the Americans to act on behalf of Iraq to kill and deliver people protected by UN, I think it would be a rare and massive stupidity committed by humans.
“The problem is that this expression of barbarism, this ultimate barbarism, has happened in Camp Ashraf and the threats are real.”
Mr Kouchner said Camp Liberty was not adequately protected and back Iranian resistance president-elect Maryam Rajavi’s call for UN blue helmet soldiers to be based permanently at the camp.
He added: “It is imperative that each government be urged to demonstrate a reaction. Americans should be told. The United Nations should be told.
“And above all, we need to act immediately before it is too late to prevent the extradition of these seven which would be an evil gesture.
“Do not stop requiring an investigation by UN officials, that is to say, the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Ms. Navi Pillay whom I know very well and is a very good woman. But at times United Nations acts like it is wearing a straitjacket.
“Ms Pillay and Mr Guterres need to save the sanctity of their agencies. They need to go themselves.
“This is an intolerable crime. Like all other crimes, but this one particularly. And it is unacceptable because it contains a hatred of secularism, of the struggle of women, and of democracy.”