For the past four months the families have been asking to meet with their relatives who remain captive inside the camp. The families have established a small camp of their own to out-wait the Mojahedin’s stubborn refusal to comply with their simple request.
The families are cheerful and optimistic. They are being encouraged and facilitated by the Iraqi authorities, who also want the Mojahedin to comply with demands of the Iraqi Government.
The Mojahedin have accused these families of being ‘agents of the Iranian Intelligence Ministry’ who have come to kill them. Rajavi has indoctrinated his followers with fear and loathing of their own mothers and fathers.
Of course, the work of dissolving a mind-control cult is not easy. Cult experts would agree that the two groups of people who most threaten the leaders’ control over members’ minds are the ex-members and the families of current members. This is no different in the case of the Mojahedin-e Khalq. Having been pushed into a corner by the revelations of the ex-members, the cult now faces the absolute determination of these families to achieve their aim. The families will stay at Camp Ashraf until they have freed their children.
Since the Government of Iraq took over responsibility for Camp Ashraf on January 1, 2009, there has been a steady trickle of people who have made their escape from the clutches of the cult despite the extreme strictures imposed on everyone inside.
The most resent escapee, Mr. Alamdar Shaygan, escaped the MKO terror group on 24th April, 2010 after 22 years, and joined the families behind the Ashraf gates.
Mr. Shaygan broke free from the cult after managing to reach the front gates of the Camp where a small group of families have established a picket for over three months. Mr. Shaygan joined the families, who welcomed him as one of their own children.
Mr. Mohammad Baqer Keshavarz, another defector of terrorist destructive cult of Rajavi, returned home on March 11th, 2010. He was welcomed by Nejat Society Gilan Branch.
The newly defected member, who had been forced to stay in Camp Ashraf under severe manipulative control system, seemed to be depressed and disappointed. He revealed some horrifying facts on cult-like relationships ruling Ashraf, which made the members of Nejat Society cry for their beloved ones still captured by Rajavi’s cult.
MKO victims families maintain their vigil outside Camp Ashraf
Reporters from Iraqi and International media are at the gates of Camp Ashraf to report on a protracted stand-off between the leaders of the terrorist cult Mojahedin-e Khalq and the families of residents held hostage in the camp. The families are demanding to meet with their relatives.
The MKO have refused. The MKO leadership enforces strict isolation on its members and does not allow them to leave the camp or have access to media or communications. Because of this, their families have not had news or met up for over twenty-five years.
After ten days of a stand-off, a small group of Iranian families have staged a sit-in outside the gates of Camp Ashraf in Diyala province in Iraq. The families’ simple, straightforward and only demand is that they be able to meet with their relatives who are trapped inside the camp….
The MKO’s immediate reaction to the family visits was to state that “agents of the clerical regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security are being dispatched to Camp Ashraf under the cover of family members of Ashraf residents…
A quote from Massoud Rajavi stated that members were not allowed to visit with their families even if an MKO minder was present.
On Monday, January 18, 2010, Nejat Society Shiraz Branch proudly received another defector of Rajavi’s destructive cult.
Mr. Mahmoud Dashtestani succeeded to release himself from the bars of Rajavis’ Cult and returned to his homeland and joined his family.
Mr. Dashtestani became prisoner of war in 1980 during Iran- Iraq War. In 1989 Mujahedin deceived Mr. Dasahtestani into recruiting him and sent him to Camp Ashraf, Iraq. He had been a member of the so called National Liberation Army for about 20 years.
On November 25, 2009 a number of families of captured Camp Ashraf residents from Gilan attended a meeting held by Nejat Society Gilan Branch called “Invocation” to ask Red Cross and other international organizations and especially the government of Iraq to help them visit their beloved ones who are captured behind the bars of the infernal cult of Rajavis.
Following the invitation made by the office of Nejat Society in Western Azarbayjan, the honorable representative of ICRC visited that office on November 5th and 6th, 2009. During the two days, he met some members of families whose relatives are captured in Camp Ashraf under the rule of MKO leaders. He received their only request which is contacting their beloved ones in Camp Ashraf under the rule of MKO leaders.
