Ashraf 3 – Albania, 19 July 2020 Commemorating anniversary of the 1988 massacre of prisoners in Iran
Channel: NCRI FAC
Date: 2020-07-20

Maryam Rajavi: Call for justice to hold the Iranian regime to account

On the second day of the Free Iran Global Summit, on Sunday, July 20, 2020, an online international conference, entitled, "The 1988 Massacre, A Crime Against Humanity, Remains Unpunished 32 Years After," was held on the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and the 32nd anniversary of the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners. Held at Ashraf3, the event was attended by Maryam Rajavi, the NCRI President-elect. Several international lawyers and political figures, as well as several MEK members, who had served time in the mullahs' prisons and witnessed the massacre, spoke at the gathering.

Speaking at the gathering, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi called the 1988 massacre, "The greatest unpunished crime against humanity." By his fatwa sanctioning the 1988 massacre, Khomeini intended to annihilate the generation of the PMOI/MEK, to guarantee his rule, just as the Mongols did in Iran. For this reason, she said, from the outset, when the details of this massacre were revealed, we have called for the prosecution of the masterminds and perpetrators of this great crime against humanity.

- Universal suffrage and respecting people's vote, to the declaration that the mullahs' religious fascist regime is not capable of being changed, is incapable of making reforms and is incapable of even negotiating.

- The Peace Plan, peace policy, and the peace movement against Khomeini's warmongering, and the Plan for the autonomy of ethnic minorities within the framework of Iran's unity and territorial integrity.

- The Plan on Separation of Religion and State and the Plan on Freedoms and Rights of Women.

Mrs. Rajavi added, In the past 40 years, the regime has continuously and regularly declared that the PMOI/MEK and the Iranian Resistance are its main enemy and the regime's first red line. For four decades, the clerical regime has been making every effort through its demonization campaigns, executions, massacres, and terrorism, to destroy this alternative, which is what needs to exist. It has been seeking to convince the world that there is no alternative to this regime and that the world must get along with the mullahs. And when it failed to destroy the PMOI/MEK and the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), it claims that the PMOI/MEK and the NCRI are worse than the regime and, therefore, again, the world must succumb to this regime.

Prominent personalities and jurists such as Baroness Boothroyd, former Speaker of the House of Commons, Giulio Terzi, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy, Saleh ِAl-Qallab, former Jordanian information minister, Geoffrey Robertson QC, a human rights barrister, Professor Alan Dershowitz, prominent U.S. civil rights lawyer, Ingrid Betancourt, former senator and Colombian presidential candidate;  Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield, former Assistant of U.S. Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs,  Ambassador Ken Blackwell, US ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights,  Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC, representative of the International Commission of Jurists on Human Rights Missions, Henri Leclerc, Prominent French Lawyer and Honorary President of the Human Rights League, Alejo Vidal Quadras, Former Vice President of the European Parliament, Struan Stevenson, former President of the European Parliament's Delegation for Relations with Iraq, Tahar Boumedra, former Chief of the Human Rights Office of UNAMI, Steve McCabe, MP,  Els Van Hoof, chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Belgian Parliament, Senator Lucio Malan, Honorary Vice-Chairman of the Italian People of Freedom Party, Renata Polverini, member of Italian Chamber of Deputies, and former President of the Lazio region, Senator Leo Housakos, member of the Canadian Senate, Taissir Tamimi, former chief Islamic judge of the Palestinian National Authority, and  Lars Rise president of the Committee of the Friends of a Free Iran in Norway, spoke at the conference.