They rose and defended their
identity and emancipating cause with utmost pride and in this way set a
brilliant tradition of refusing to surrender.
Those heroes, especially the
Mojahedin girls, frustrated the perpetrators of the massacre as they admitted.
Khomeini sought to annihilate
the PMOI generation to preserve his regime's rule, but nothing has remained of
his regime except a damned creature submerged in blood and corruption which is
a disgrace to Iran's history.
In contrast, the Mojahedin
generation, their ideology and their thought grew and the victims of the 1988
massacre turned into the invincible conscience of the nation.
As Massoud reiterated in
those days, in the 1980s, "Humanity always shows its secrets in glorious
myths and epics; the secrets of its conscious and free existence… These genuine
epics, that leave the most tangible and fate-making effects, are created in
such confrontations and are indeed accompanied by tremendous sacrifice and
suffering."
The steadfast perseverance of
massacred Mojahedin and freedom-fighters is among such epics.
Their voices can be heard in
the endless questions of students and youths who challenge the mullahs'
murderous government over the 1988 massacre.
They can be heard in the
messages of political prisoners from across the country who rise to support the
resistance for the overthrow of the religious tyranny.
And the cause of those
martyrs forges ahead, lively and spirited, in the perseverance of the PMOI in
Camp Liberty.
I hail my compatriots,
members and supporters of the Iranian Resistance, and the families of martyrs
and political prisoners, who commemorated the victims of the 1988 massacre and
demanded justice by staging different activities, including hunger strikes
since the final week of July.
I express my gratitude to
PMOI supporters inside Iran for their activities, and to our fellow compatriots
who held three-day hunger strikes and demonstrations in the UK, the
Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, Canada, Norway, Sweden,
France and the US.
I would like to emphasize
that you showed that those heroes still echo the cry of freedom in Iran despite
passage of three decades. Their names, their innocence and their glorious and
unwavering endurance have shaken up the ruling religious tyranny and call for
freedom of our enchained nation.
Dear compatriots,
The publication of an audio
recording of Mr. Montazeri's meeting with four officials responsible for the
1988 massacre sent shock waves throughout the regime.
This is an important document
attesting to several basic realities: First, the audio clip contains explicit
admissions by those responsible for the massacre about their participation in
an ongoing genocide. It shows that Khomeini and his entourage contravened their
own procedures and routines and were directly involved in the massacre. It also
indicates that the religious tyranny solidified the foundations of the next
round of its repugnant Velayat-e Faqih rule in the course of this genocide.
The fact is that Khamenei's
empowerment was not the outcome of Rafsanjani's recommendations to the Assembly
of Experts or their meetings. The scheme, however, was concocted during the
massacre of political prisoners which was managed by the highest officials at
the time, namely Ali Khamenei, Rafsanjani and Ahmad Khomeini.
Another point clearly made by
Mr. Montazeri is that Khomeini had been deliberating on the massacre since
three or four years before and as his son repeatedly stated, he had decided to
execute all "the Mojahedin, from those who read the newspaper, to those
who read the magazines, and those who read the flyers."
Therefore, those who over the
past years argued that the reason for the massacre was the Eternal Light
battles, have indeed assisted the regime, politically and justified its crimes.
Khomeini feared the
Mojahedin's deep roots in Iranian society and the movement's strength and
determination. In a letter he wrote a few months later to Montazeri, Khomeini
explained the reason for his ouster: "It has now become clear that after
me, you will give up this country and the dear Islamic revolution of Iran's
Muslim nation to liberals and through them to the (Mojahedin)."
Another reality is the
dreadful, large numbers of those massacred. The methods of the death
commissions were so insane in various cities that in talking to Mr. Montazeri,
the henchmen --who had thousands of people executed in Tehran-- claimed to be
moderates who opposed such extremism. Nevertheless, a few months later,
Khomeini adopted a policy of total rejection of the truth. In a letter to Mr.
Montazeri, he wrote that "the PMOI took advantage of your words and
writings to make a big deal out of 'a very limited number' of those executed
and you can see what a priceless service you have done to the Arrogance."
So, since the outset, the
policy of denying and minimizing the crimes or attributing them to the Mojahedin,
was personally formulated by Khomeini.
Today, however, many of those
deceits and lies have been foiled and the innocence of the Mojahedin and
legitimacy of their resistance glow brighter than ever.
The regime's officials and
spokesmen are concerned that "the country's youths have become
skeptical." They say, "There are efforts to change the society's
outlook on the Mojahedin," and "there is a suspicious current that
deliberates on whitewashing the PMOI and its deeds…" They say, "The
revival of the Mojahedin and portraying them as innocent are very dangerous."
Today, many regime officials
and even those directly involved in the massacre try to pretend that they were
not informed of the massacre. They try to dodge taking any stand on this issue.
Some of them slander the PMOI to evade the main question. And yet, there are
some murderers who defend the massacre more brashly than ever.
All of them, however, believe
that the public's widespread reaction to the recent publication of the audio
recording is akin to the end of their regime.
Dear compatriots,
The time has come to launch a
movement to obtain justice over the massacre of political prisoners in Iran and
expand it everywhere and by any means possible.
The litigation movement must,
in the first step, seek to indict the mullahs' supreme leader Ali Khamenei.
Khamenei and his accomplices
are criminals because they are the highest officials directly responsible for
the 1988 massacre of political prisoners.
They are criminals because
they concealed the information and documents on this carnage.
Khamenei and his accomplices
are criminals because they have repressed the families of the victims of the
massacre for the past 28 years.
They are criminals because they
have constantly backed the perpetrators and those directly responsible for the
massacre and appointed them to high political and judicial positions.
The movement to obtain
justice for victims of 1988 massacre must hold the Velayat-e Faqih regime
accountable for the secrets it has concealed on this horrendous crime.
The regime's leaders must
release the complete list of those massacred.
They must declare how many
they executed in every city and every province.
They must announce where the
victims are buried and where are their mass graves?
It is the most basic right of
every bereaved mother to know where her child is buried.
Yes, it must be clarified
what was the story of those who were arrested simultaneous with the massacre
and executed at once?
What are the stories of Ahwaz
Prison and Dastjerd Prison in Isfahan? What are the catastrophic stories of the
prisons of Shiraz, Mashhad and Tabriz?
What is the story of mass
executions of those arrested in western Iran allegedly for supporting the
National Liberation Army and executed shortly afterwards?
What is the story of those
who wanted to join the Mojahedin in cities as acknowledged in a recent
interview by Moussavi Tabrizi, Khomeini's criminal Solicitor General?
The movement to obtain
justice is also a campaign to expose the identities of each one of those who
made the decisions and who carried out the executions.
Who were the death commission
members in the provincial capitals?
What happened in the meeting
of the three heads of branches where they decided to massacre the non-PMOI
prisoners?
What were the decisions of
the State Exigency Council which on Khomeini's order took charge of determining
the fate of prisoners on September 27, 1988? And how many more prisoners were
hanged?
And finally, the movement to
obtain justice is a relentless campaign by our compatriots and all supporters
of the Iranian Resistance for international prosecution of Khamenei and other
regime leaders for committing genocide and crime against humanity.
The United Nations and the UN
Security Council must make the political and legal arrangements for the
international prosecution of leaders of this regime on the charge of committing
crime against humanity.
The formal, international
condemnation of the 1988 massacre is a necessary step towards ending all mass
executions in Iran which was recently repeated in the simultaneous execution of
25 Sunni prisoners.
Yes, we need to plead for
justice for the victims of massacre, for the pain and suffering of bereaved
mothers and fathers, and for the huge human and moral damage to our nation
inflicted by this regime.
The movement to obtain
justice demands the names of the victims, the locations of their graves, the
identities of murderers, and prosecution of the regime's leaders; this is a
movement which targets the pillars of the Velayat-e Faqih's tyranny and oppression.
We call on all advocates of
human rights the world over and everyone who respects human rights to join the
people of Iran in their demand for prosecution of the Iranian regime's leaders.
This demand is coupled with
the freedom of our enchained Iran. On that day, our massacred heroes and all
the martyrs will revive the entire country in the resuscitative breeze of
freedom.
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