NCRI – Plain-clothes agents of the Iranian regime in their latest efforts to destroy the most important proof left from the criminal massacre of more than 30,000 political prisoners in 1988, removed the soil from parts of the Khavaran cemetery, in South East of Tehran, relocating the remains of victims.
On Saturday, April 25, 2009, in early morning hours, the agents used several loaders and trucks to remove the soil from the southeastern part of the Khavaran cemetery, where mass graves are located. They then began to replace it with fresh soil.
NCRI – Plain-clothes agents of the Iranian regime in their latest efforts to destroy the most important proof left from the criminal massacre of more than 30,000 political prisoners in 1988, removed the soil from parts of the Khavaran cemetery, in South East of Tehran, relocating the remains of victims.
On Saturday, April 25, 2009, in early morning hours, the agents used several loaders and trucks to remove the soil from the southeastern part of the Khavaran cemetery, where mass graves are located. They then began to replace it with fresh soil.
Families of victims while visiting the cemetery recognized tracks left from operating of heavy machinery and signs of replacement of the soil, as well as parts of skeletons which had surfaced. Some families of the victims collected the parts as evidence.
The demolishing of Khavaran cemetery was first ordered by mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei personally, and was placed on the agenda of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was mayor of Tehran at the time. The ruling mullahs, who were carrying out this project under the banner of turning the cemetery into a public cemetery, were later forced to abandon the idea in the face of protests from victims’ families. In 2006, Ahmadinejad, now acting as the mullahs’ President, ordered the demolition of stones belonging to some of the slain political prisoners at the cemetery.
In 1988, in act of unprecedented brutality, the regime dug huge graves in Khavaran cemetery and buried the bodies of thousands of massacred political prisoners in these mass graves. Then it tried to veil this human catastrophe through deceptions. However, the Iranian Resistance published numerous documents and evidence exposing this inhumane crime in the eyes of the world.
In the course of this massacre, which is a clear example of a crime committed against humanity, more than 30,000 political prisoners, many of whom had already finished their sentences, were sent to the gallows for merely supporting, sympathizing with or being members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). They were executed group after group in accordance with the religious decree (fatwa) issued by Ruhollah Khomeini, the mullah regime’s founder.
The Iranian regime’s security forces have also adopted measures to prevent families from visiting the cemetery and holding services as they do every Friday, by welding and shutting the main door.
Additionally, security forces have on many occasions resorted to beating the families and other harassment measures, to prevent them to visit the burial site of their loved ones. They have told the families that in the future they can only enter the cemetery when is permitted by the regime.
