Associated Press Jun 19, 2011
opposition group says the United Nations must monitor its camp in Iraq after a deadly April attack by the Iraqi army.
Maryam Rajavi of the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran told thousands of followers at a gathering Saturday outside Paris that U.N. monitors in Camp Ashraf is the most expedient short-term way to protect the 3,400 people living there.
The camp was installed under Saddam Hussein and once used as a base to battle the clerical regime across the border in Iran.
The U.S. has labeled the Mujahedeen a terrorist group, and Rajavi says Washington is responsible for the situation in Ashraf because it has “shackled the main force for change in Iran.”
An Iraqi army attack on the enclave killed up to 35 people and injured hundreds.
