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Dozens of MKO Members Escape Camp Ashraf

Nejat SocietyApril 21, 2011070 views

The Arabic-language Nahrainnet website said Iraq’s defense ministry has confirmed that scores of defectors have escaped the camp and sought Baghdad’s refuge.The report pointed out that the move by the MKO fugitives would help further unveil the shocking secrets of the camp (formerly known as Camp Ashraf).The website also stressed that the move by the MKO’s members also proves the Iranian officials’ righteous stance who had said earlier that a large number of MKO members wanted to exit Camp Ashraf..

MKO defected members in a Press Conference in Iraq

Nejat SocietyApril 20, 2011077 views

The spokesperson of the Iraqi defense ministry said members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization, MKO, escaped Camp Ashraf and surrendered themselves to the Iraqi forces.He said the defected members have given useful information and the Iraqi government now has the required evidence to shut down the camp…The former MKO members said many residents of Camp Ashraf, who are under immense pressure, want to escape but are afraid and unsure of the future. The said scores of MKO/MEK/PMOI members have been killed by the organization recently.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Says Camp Ashraf Must Go

Nejat SocietyApril 20, 2011068 views

… The Iraqi Constitution prohibits the presence of mujahedin or any other militia groups from neighboring countries, whether it’s the PKK [Kurdistan Workers Party], whether it’s the PJAK [Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan], or whoever to have presence on Iraqi territory and to launch attacks against our neighbors. Constitutionally, this is not allowed and the mujahedin or the MEK/MKO/PMOI member [Mujahedin-e Khalq] of the Ashraf camp have to respect Iraqi law..

Hidden arsenal found in Ashraf Camp

Nejat SocietyApril 19, 20110118 views

Camp Ashraf was for years the armed training base in Iraq for the members of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization known as MKO/MEK/PMOI, where the group was sheltered by former President Saddam Hussein. The local officials stated the US troops already claimed they had disarmed the MKO members but it seems that was not true.The mayor of Al Khalis where the camp is located showed the pictures of the weapons and said that they were buried inside the camp near the shacks of the MKO members.

UN calls for Iraqi probe of attack on Iranian opposition group

Nejat SocietyApril 19, 2011092 views

..An adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Saad al-Matalabi, said forensic tests that included US experts have been completed on the bodies[of MKO/MEK/PMOI members] to determine whether a medical team’s initial findings had been correct…“They were shot execution-style,” Mr. al-Mutalibi told the Monitor. “The first medical reports indicated they were shot at very close range – gunpowder was found on the wounds.”He also said they appear to be have been shot with handguns rather than the rifles used by the Iraqi military.

MKO treats members like prisoners

Nejat SocietyApril 18, 2011059 views

Reports coming out of Camp Ashraf point to the inhumane treatment of residents by the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI), which has recently engaged in an exchange of fire with Iraqi security forces…“I worked with the organization for 25 years… during these years I could not contact my family… using the phone, cell-phone, Internet, other mass media and even listening to the radio is forbidden in the organization,” Abdullatif Shadvari, a former MKO members said.

Singleton visits Camp Ashraf in wake of violence by Rajavi cult loyalists

Nejat SocietyApril 18, 2011090 views

… It is thought that up to 200 MEK members loyal to Massoud Rajavi took part in the violence. It is not known how many of the 3400 residents at the camp continue as members of the terrorist group. Singleton visited the camp at the start of a week of meetings with Iraqi officials to demand that the organisational infrastructure of the group be dismantled, and that the leaders are prosecuted under Iraqi and international law. The remaining residents should be enabled to determine their own futures without pressure from the MEK leaders. ..

Camp Ashraf residents announce readiness to leave Iraq

Nejat SocietyApril 17, 2011070 views

..a close source at the United Nations office in Iraq as saying, “The senior members of the MKO sent a letter to the UN Special Representative (for Iraq Ad Melkert) yesterday (Friday), in which they expressed (the group’s) readiness to leave Iraq.”“In their letter, the senior members of the MKO called on the UN representative to prepare the ground for the group’s exit out of Iraq and their travel to a European country or the United States,” the source stated.

Could the MEK be evicted from Camp Ashraf?

Nejat SocietyApril 17, 2011067 views

… Although the camp was disarmed in 2003 by the U.S. military, both Baghdad and Washington consider the MEK aka MKO/PMOIa terrorist organization. Washington has blacklisted the group for its attacks against U.S. interests in the 1970s and ’80s. Iraqi officials have frequently said the Iranian exiles are”illegal aliens”with no legal right to remain in the country and that they must travel to either Iran or another country. They have repeatedly warned that they will close the camp, which was under U.S. military protection until 2009,..

Iraq: Ashraf camp victims killed by own guards

Nejat SocietyApril 16, 2011070 views

… Deaths resulting from an Iraqi army raid on an Iranian opposition[MKO/MEK/PMOI] camp on its soil were caused by the camp’s[Ashraf] own guards firing on residents attempting to escape, an Iraqi spokesman said Thursday. The comments from Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh came shortly after a United Nations spokesman in New York said 34 people were killed in the April 8 raid on Camp Ashraf, the residence of the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran (PMOI), in Diyala province north of Baghdad. ..