Camp Ashraf Affairs

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Is there anyone to help the families of MKO terrorists’ hostages? Part4

After ten months of picketing in front of Ashraf garrison:
Is there anyone to help the families whose loved ones have been taken hostage by Washington backed Mojahedin Khalq (aka; MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) terrorists? (Part Four)

(Families go and look everywhere to find some signs)
The place of residence of the families outside the garrison camp Ashraf

The families are getting ready for the winter. It looks as if they know their waiting will be longer than expected. Rajavi is still dreaming that these families will get tired sooner or later and will leave. He has never been able, nor will ever be able to imagine the drive and determination, the feelings of a mother in this situation.

What are they staring at? What are they thinking about?

Could they glimpse their loved ones over the barbed wires? Only a glance from a distance to make sure they are still healthy? It has become the main task for the families now, staring into the garrison hoping to see their loved ones – a hope Rajavi is fiercely against.

Camp Ashraf under siege by Iraqi and Iranian forces!?

Iraqi soldiers dispersing the families from the barbed wires designed to keep Rajavi’s hostages inside. Families go and look everywhere to find some signs from their loved ones. They are as respectful to the Iraqi soldiers as they can be. They obey their orders.

Ms. Soraya Abdollahi

She has become the symbol of resistance of the Mothers. She came only to visit her son Amir Arsalan Hassanzadeh. That was her only wish. He is being held by the Rajavi cult only a few hundred meters from her. But now she sees all the captives inside camp Ashraf as her children. The drive of Ms. Abdollahi has attrcted the praise of all the families now.

The newly arrived

The news of the families reaches the other family members of captives in Ashraf garrison. They now come from all over the world; from Lorestan to Norway, from Gilan to Canada.
The facilities are very primitive but the drive of the families solves all the problems in a glance.

The Mojahedin Khalq (Rajavi cult) viewing post

We sincerely suggest that instead of watching the families with binoculars 24/7, and instead of taking pictures and films 24/7, try to understand what they are trying to say and why they have come here. Why don’t you try to convince them to join the cult with your loud speakers? You never know, it may work. Is this not a more sensible approach?

Fighting the voices of families with parasite equipment

The huge loud speaker you see is only to broadcast parasite noise to drown out the voices of the families. The Rajavi cult claims that the words of the families are torturing the people inside the camp (read Rajavi himself). Obviously this huge loud speaker designed to broadcast parasite noise does not matter.
If he is silencing the voices of the families because he does not like it, what would he have done with his opponents if he had the power?

Ex members have come to help families

Rescued from the Rajavi cult, they are now here to help their friends and the families. They know better than anyone what is happening inside camp Ashraf. That is why instead of going after their lives, they have come to help.

The Iraqi committee for support of the families is putting a tent up

The Iraqi committee for the support of the picketing families have put up a tent near the southern gates of the camp. The committee consists of some Iraqi human rights activists headed by Dr. Nafe. The families have benefited hugely from their support.

Establishing themselves around the camp

Families have been in front of the western gates of the camp for months. Now they are dispersing around the camp. Some have come to the southern gates and some have moved to the eastern gates. They are trying to reach the hostages by using their hand held loud speakers. They are trying to let them know that whichever direction they run away, they will face the open arms of their own families.
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December 19, 2010 0 comments

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Iraqi organizations demonstrating in front of Camp Ashraf

Thousands of members of civil society organizations from across Iraq, Saturday, gathered in front of Camp Ashraf, home to more than 3400 members of the PMOI in Diyala, demanding that the Iraqi government develop mechanisms to remove the organization from Iraq.

Member of the Organization of Unity for Human Rights in Diyala, Hamid Abdul-Majid al-Obeidi, said in an interview for Alsumaria News, the Iraqi government is to "develop mechanisms to remove the Iranian MKO from Iraq because it is the main reason behind lack of security and stability in the province of Diyala".
Obeidi said that his organization had "a lot of information recorded and submitted to the security forces in Diyala, which confirms the involvement of agents of the MKO in financing and supporting al Qaeda in Diyala."

For his part, lawyer, Zia Karim said that "the leaders of the MKO at Camp Ashraf reject orders made by the Iraqi justice system for the exit of some members of the MKO from the camp at the request of their families."

Karim said that “the leaders of Camp Ashraf and in particular the head of the organisation is being asked to accept the just demands of the ones who want to leave the organisation and to allow them to leave the camp”. He stressed that, “we also demand the government of Iraq to take responsibility to implement the orders of Iraqi officials as well as the Judiciary system and uphold the rule of law in Iraq”.

The lawyer revealed, "I have more than 75 powers of attorney from the Iranian families to take their children out of Camp Ashraf, especially when the children are subjected to torture at the hands of the leaders of Camp Ashraf, because they want to get out of the camp."

He continued by saying, "I will raise a lawsuit against the leaders of Camp Ashraf, where they are accused of preventing some members of the organization from access to their legal rights and do not allow lawyers and non-governmental human rights commissions and neutral bodies to enter the camp and give those individuals the right to decide to stay or leave."

Along with a description of the representative NGOs that participated in the demonstration today in front of Camp Ashraf, Fadel Daami, emphasized the position of the Iraqi government toward the obvious need to remove the MKO from Iraq.

Daami said to Alsumaria News, "The Iraqi government’s position is clear and is not a secret that it wants to expel the members of the Organization from Iraq. He added, “there is pressure on the Iraqi government as in the case of the PKK (the Kurdish PKK in Turkey) as the existence of organized opposition cause embarrassment to the government among its neighbors."

The Iraqi forces, comprising nearly a thousand members of the army and the police force, moved into Camp Ashraf earlier this year. But members of the MKO used batons and knives to prevent Iraqi security officers from discharging their duties, which led to the outbreak of fighting and injuring about two hundred and sixty people from both sides and the arrest of twenty five members of the MKO.

Alsumaria News – translated by Iran Interlink

December 12, 2010 0 comments

Iraq

Iraqi and Iranain Families protest against Mujahedin Khalq in Camp New Iraq

A large number of Iranian and Iraqi families staged a massive protest outside the main training center of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in Iraq and called for the freedom of their relatives and children who are under various types of torture and pressure by their ringleaders inside the camp.
The protestors demanded the Iraqi government and all human rights groups and organizations to provide the ground for the freedom of their children from the notorious Camp Ashraf, and urged closure of the terrorist hub.
Among the demonstrators were families of the MKO members, who say their loved ones are being held inside the camp against their will.
The MKO ringleaders are reported to be using torture and pressure on their own dissident members, barring the dissident members from leaving the organization and joining their families.
Earlier this month, an Iraq-based right group unveiled that ringleaders of the MKO have resorted to various forms of mass killing in a bid to bring the group out of the current impasse in Iraq.
According to a report by Iraqi daily Motamar, also published by Edalat (Justice) Society web site – an organ of the families of the Iranian victims of terrorism – the Iraqi right group has sent serious warnings to civil society and human rights bodies as well as the Iraqi government about the ongoing humanitarian disaster in the MKO’s main training camp in Northern Iraq.
The Sahar Family Foundation also said that the MKO’s ringleaders are forcing the dissident members of the group to commit suicide, and if they refuse to do so, the leaders massacre defectors themselves.
The right group called on the Iraqi judiciary system, international court of justice and all international human rights bodies as well as the Iraqi and international media to take urgent action to stop the human catastrophe in the camp which, they said, now looks more like a slaughterhouse.
A November report by the Habilian Association, an Iran-based human rights group, said that under the direct order of MKO’s Ringleader Maryam Rajavi, leaders of the terrorist group in the Camp of New Iraq (formerly known as Camp Ashraf) allow their members to receive medical aids, healthcare and other services in return for given levels of cooperation.
Based on the order, dissident members are deprived of medicine and other medical services or, at least, face much hardship and difficulty in procuring their necessary medicines.
The right group added that the new measure came after protests remarkably increased inside the group, specially in the camp. Right groups are gravely concerned that a large number of MKO members may lose their lives soon if UN, human rights and Iraqi officials do not force the group leaders to end their tortures and pressures against the dissident members.
In relevant development, a report revealed in November that Ahmad Razzani, a veteran member of the MKO, had been killed inside the Camp.
According to an August report by the Habilian Association, the MKO leaders have increased their pressures and control over the members of the terrorist group to prevent possible defection and escape by unsatisfied members.
Reports also said that all exit and entry doors have been locked and none of the members, even those suffering from acute diseases and illnesses, are allowed to leave the camp.
MKO ringleaders have ordered the camp guards to stage snap inspections of the group’s members and their personal belongings under the pretext of finding the lost weapons.
Such behaviors have sparked discontent among a number of MKO members and made them escape the camp and return to their anguished families.
The MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, a number of EU parliamentarians said in a letter last year in which they slammed a British court decision to remove the MKO from the British terror list. The EU officials also added that the group has no public support within Iran because of their role in helping Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988).
The group, founded in the 1960s, blended elements of Islamism and Stalinism and participated in the overthrow of the US-backed Shah of Iran in 1979. Ahead of the revolution, the MKO conducted attacks and assassinations against both Iranian and Western targets.
The group started assassination of the citizens and officials after the revolution in a bid to take control of the newly established Islamic Republic. It killed several of Iran’s new leaders in the early years after the revolution, including the then President, Mohammad Ali Rajayee, Prime Minister, Mohammad Javad Bahonar and the Judiciary Chief, Mohammad Hossein Beheshti who were killed in bomb attacks by MKO members in 1981.
The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.

December 12, 2010 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Is there anyone to help the families of MKO terrorists’ hostages?Part3

After ten months of picketing in front of Ashraf garrison:
Is there anyone to help the families whose loved ones have been taken hostage by Washington backed Mojahedin Khalq (aka; MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) terrorists? (Part Three)

Ms. Mahrokh Rabbani,
It is now many years that she has been both a mother and a father for her children.
Now that the children are grown up, she has come to the gates of Ashraf garrison to find out about the fate of her husband.

Mahrokh has come to talk with her husband about her years of hard work and misery, but she is now facing barbed wire, ditch and dike as well as the internal and external security and political barriers.

Her husband has been a hostage of the Rajavi cult for years. He is now imprisoned inside Camp Ashraf.

Is there anyone who would listen to this patient mother and a self-sacrificing wife?

Will her sitting and waiting one day bear fruit?

What is it that Rajavi is so afraid of?

What hindering effect could a 3 hour meeting make to the 30 year struggle of a man and of his cult?

What would happen if free air would be breathed by the members held captive inside the camp?

Mehrdad and Hojat,
They have managed to run away from the camp recently. They are now free.
After years of captivity, they are enjoying their freedom by taking a walk in the streets of Baghdad.

Their faces are hardly recognisable compared with when they had just run away from the camp.
It is as though they have been born again. They are fresh, they are alive once again.

Is there anyone who will take notice of the cries of the rest of the captives inside Camp Ashraf?

Mothers sitting at the gates of Ashraf camp as though they don’t feel the cold and the heat.
They have now passed the hot summer and are well on into the cold winter of the Iraqi deserts.

Does Rajavi know what they want and what has brought them here?

No. He only knows what he wants and is ready to sacrifice everything and anything for his childish fantasies.

One of the mothers said once: “I am not sure he himself knows what he wants”.

The gates of Camp Ashraf

The families have found a brief moment when the gates are opened to take goods in. They are rushing to the gate.

But soon they will find out that the path to their loved ones is more closed than they think.

Will a day come when they can take their loved ones in their arms?
The Iraqi forces in charge of the security of Camp Ashraf
Rajavi is saying that the camp is under siege by the Iraqi forces.

If it was not for this ‘siege’, the Iraqi people would have brought the whole camp to dust and dirt.
If it was not for this ‘siege’, the families would have ways to get to their loved ones.
If it was not for this ‘siege’, the people inside he camp would have ways to get themselves free.
Has anyone seen or heard of a bigger liar than Rajavi?

Translated by Iran Interlink

December 6, 2010 0 comments

MEK Camp Ashraf

Ashraf residents cannot be safeguarded under the domination of Rajavi

Health and security of Ashraf residents cannot be safeguarded under the domination of Rajavi

Here and there we read and hear that such and such parliamentarian or human rights activist has demanded that the health and security of the residents of Ashraf Camp, the main base of the Rajavi cult in Iraq, be restored. It is very interesting to learn that some people are concerned Health and security of Ashraf residents cannot be safeguarded under the domination of Rajavi about the fate of 3000+ innocent followers of Rajavi trapped in his cult. The aim behind the establishment of Sahar Family Foundation was to follow the best interests of the Ashraf inhabitants. The question is of course how these interests can be fulfilled in the best way.

What has happened in the past decade clearly shows that those Ashraf residents who managed to escape the cultic garrison and were freed from the domination of Rajavi, eventually had a far better fate and enjoyed better and more health and security. The facts demonstrate that those who remain there are confronted by all sorts of threats and dangers such as facing death as the result of suicide, self-immolation, unintended shootings, various accidents and misfortunes, being prevented from leaving Ashraf to go to Baghdad or abroad for medical treatment and so on.

During the last decade, several hundred people have escaped Ashraf Camp and were freed. Many of them voluntarily decided to go back to Iran with the help from the International Committee of the Red Cross and they returned to their families and got their lives back through this reconciliation. The ICRC is continuously monitoring their situation and they can state that no-one faced any harm. The parliamentarians and the activists who are concerned about the case of the Ashraf residents can check this out with the Red Cross easily. Even those who were sent from Iraq, with the help of Saddam’s army, to Iran to conduct terrorism and sabotage activities and were arrested before or after their operations had a better destiny. Many of them have since formed a family in Iran or freely moved to another country.

Those separated members who did not wish to go to Iran were located in the American Forces’ camps and after a long wait they accepted the risks (less than the risks they faced in Ashraf of course) and moved to Europe. Some stayed in Iraq and are still waiting to leave the country to get to a third country. Up to now no security threat has threatened their lives, except on one occasion some years ago when a man crossing the border river between Turkey and Iraq was drowned.

All former members can witness that since they left Ashraf Camp they are in a far better physical and psychological situation. Many of them managed to overcome their chronic illnesses and gain their health again after a while. Inside the Camp their illnesses were ignored and they were even accused of pretending to be ill. The hard labour inside the Camp that the members had to suffer as a means to make them stop thinking has had enormous effects on them and most inhabitants suffer severe physical and mental disorders. Some inside the camp say in secret that the rifle and sickle on the MKO’s emblem should be replaced by a shovel and sweeping brush.

More than one hundred individuals have lost their lives inside Ashraf during recent years in different ways. The MKO terrorist cult claimed that more than 50 people were killed due to the U.S. bombing of Iraq during the 2003 invasion of the country. Eye witnesses who have been able to escape from Ashraf Camp say that none of them were killed in that way and many of those named were killed long before or after the bombings. Some of these people were killed on the direct order of Massoud Rajavi the cult leader. Hundreds of statements have been filed with the Iraqi Judiciary in the MKO’s lawsuit in this regard.

Rajavi has never given an explanation to these murders. His cult has not announced the details of even one case of a member losing their life due to the bombings. The cult agents are in the habit of recording every single moment on camera to use for propaganda. Not even one photograph or film was released to show a dead body or a place devastated by the bombings.

Those who are really concerned about the situation of Camp Ashraf’s residents probably know that Rajavi has on many occasions threatened that if he reaches the end of the line he will order all his followers in Ashraf to commit mass suicide or self-immolation, the same way that happened at Waco and in Guyana.
After the cult prevented Ms. Elham Fardipour from going to hospital in Baghdad and after the murder of Mr. Ahmad Razani, the concern of the families at the gates of Camp Ashraf has about the health and security of their loved ones inside the camp has escalated. They are rightfully frightened about the fate of their children and relatives since Rajavi does not think about anything but his childish goals.

Rajavi’s claim about Ashraf’s blockade by the Iraqi forces is totally false and is cultic propaganda. The leaders of the cult frequently travel between Ashraf and Jordan and Paris. Trucks full of medicine, food, fuel, and other essentials keep going into Ashraf Camp escorted by UN officials and American tanks. Those inhabitants who are fully trusted by the cult go to Baghdad for many reasons. The truth is that the Ashraf blockade is imposed by the cult only and the American forces who wish to protect this terrorist base fully assist them in this.

Sahar Family Foundation calls on all humanitarian and international activists and organizations, particularly those who have expressed their concern about the situation of the residents and wish to do something about it, to come to the place or send delegations to gain first hand observation of the actual conditions there. SFF is happy ready for any kind of cooperation and for providing all sorts of documents in this respect.

December 1, 2010 0 comments

MEK Camp Ashraf

MKO Ringleaders Cut Medical Supplies to Dissidents in Iraqi Camp Ashraf

Leaders of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) have resorted to various types of torture and pressure, including a cut of medical supplies to ailing members, to suppress growing dissidence in their main training camp in Northern Iraq.

A report by the Habilian Association, an Iran-based huma MKO Ringleaders Cut Medical Supplies to Dissidents in Iraqi Camp Ashraf n rights group said that under the direct order of MKO’s Ringleader Maryam Rajavi, leaders of the terrorist group in the Camp of New Iraq (formerly known as Camp Ashraf) have made any kind medical, health and other services to the members dependant on the level of their cooperation.

Based on the order, dissident members are deprived of medicine and other medical services or, at least, face much hardship and difficulty in procuring their necessary medicines.

The right group added that the new measure came after protest remarkably increased inside the group, especially in the camp. Right groups are gravely concerned that a large number of MKO members may lose their lives soon if UN, human rights and Iraqi officials do not force the group leaders to end their tortures and pressures against the dissident members.

In relevant development, a report revealed on Saturday that Ahmad Razzani, a veteran member of the MKO, had been killed inside the Camp.

The report said that the move by the MKO ringleaders came after they failed to brainwash their inferiors to convince them to distant themselves from their family members who have been residing and waiting outside the camp for the last 10 months demanding freedom of their relatives.

The right group said after the brainwash policy and efforts of the MKO leaders failed, discontent and protest has both widened and deepened among MKO members.

Earlier reports coming out the camp had said that a large number of MKO’s deprecating members started riots and angry protests to end their forced presence in Camp Ashraf.
According to an August report by the Habilian Association, the MKO leaders have increased their pressures and control over the members of the terrorist group to prevent possible defection and escape by unsatisfied members.

Reports also said that all exit and entry doors have been locked and none of the members, even those suffering from acute diseases and illnesses, are allowed to leave the camp.

MKO ringleaders have ordered the camp guards to stage snap inspections of the group’s members and their personal belongings under the pretext of finding the lost weapons.

Such behaviors have sparked discontent among a number of MKO members and made them escape the camp and return to their anguished families.

According to international human rights bodies, the MKO has a completely black record in human rights. Many of the MKO members have abandoned the terrorist organization while most of those still remaining in the camp are said to be willing to quit but are under pressure and torture not to do so.
A May 2005 Human Rights Watch report accused the MKO of running prison camps in Iraq and committing human rights violations.

According to the Human Rights Watch report, the outlawed group puts defectors under torture and jail terms.

The MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, a number of EU parliamentarians said in a letter last year in which they slammed a British court decision to remove the MKO from the British terror list. The EU officials also added that the group has no public support within Iran because of their role in helping Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988).

The group, founded in the 1960s, blended elements of Islamism and Stalinism and participated in the overthrow of the US-backed Shah of Iran in 1979. Ahead of the revolution, the MKO conducted attacks and assassinations against both Iranian and Western targets.

The group started assassination of the citizens and officials after the revolution in a bid to take control of the newly established Islamic Republic. It killed several of Iran’s new leaders in the early years after the revolution, including the then President, Mohammad Ali Rajayee, Prime Minister, Mohammad Javad Bahonar and the Judiciary Chief, Mohammad Hossein Beheshti who was killed in bomb attacks by MKO members in 1981.

The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.

The MKO has been in Iraq’s Diyala province since the 1980s.

Iraqi security forces took control of the training base of the MKO at Camp Ashraf – about 60km (37 miles) north of Baghdad – last year and detained dozens of the members of the terrorist group.
The Iraqi authority also changed the name of the military center from Camp Ashraf to the Camp of New Iraq.

November 24, 2010 0 comments

MEK Camp Ashraf

Mujahedin terrorist group Kills Dissident Member

MKO terrorist group Kills Dissident Member to Suppress Protests Inside Ashraf

Leaders of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) killed a dissident member of the group in a bid to suppress growing discontent among MKO members in its main training camp in Northern Iraq.

According to a report by the Habilian Association, an Iran-based human rights group, Ahmad Razzani, a veteran member of the MKO, was killed inside the Camp of New Iraq (formerly known as Camp Ashraf), about 60 km North of Baghdad.

The report said that the move by the MKO ringleaders came after they failed to brainwash their inferiors to convince them to distant themselves from their family members who have been waiting outside the camp for the last 10 months demanding freedom of their relatives.

The right group said after the brainwash policy and efforts of the MKO leaders failed, discontent and protest has both widened and deepened among MKO members.

The report further refuted the claim raised by the MKO leaders that Razzani had hanged himself in the camp’s kitchen in an act of suicide, and stressed that Razzani’s murder on Thursday was the result of this growing discontent and protests among members of the terrorist group.

The report also pointed out that the Iraqi physician and coroner of the camp has refused to confirm the victim’s death as an act of suicide and that Razzani’s body has been sent to Baghdad for post-mortem studies and forensic tests.

Earlier reports coming out from the main training camp of MKO in Northern Iraq had said that a large number of MKO’s deprecating members started riots and angry protests to end their forced presence in Camp Ashraf.

According to an August report by the Habilian Association, the MKO leaders have increased their pressures and control over the members of the terrorist group to prevent possible defection and escape by unsatisfied members.

Reports also said that all exit and entry doors have been locked and none of the members, even those suffering from acute diseases and illnesses, are allowed to leave the camp.

MKO ringleaders have ordered the camp guards to stage snap inspections of the group’s members and their personal belongings under the pretext of finding the lost weapons.

Such behaviors have sparked discontent among a number of MKO members and made them escape the camp and return to their anguished families.

The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.

The MKO has been in Iraq’s Diyala province since the 1980s.

Iraqi security forces took control of the training base of the MKO at Camp Ashraf – about 60km (37 miles) north of Baghdad – last year and detained dozens of the members of the terrorist group.

The Iraqi authority also changed the name of the military center from Camp Ashraf to the Camp of New Iraq.

Many of the MKO members have abandoned the terrorist organization while most of those still remaining in the camp are said to be willing to quit but are under pressure and torture not to do so.

A May 2005 Human Rights Watch report accused the MKO of running prison camps in Iraq and committing human rights violations.

November 22, 2010 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Is there anyone to help the families of MKO terrorists’ hostages? Part2

After ten months of picketing in front of Ashraf garrison:

Is there anyone to help the families whose loved ones have been taken hostage (by Washington backed Mojahedin Khalq aka; MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) terrorists?

Rajavi cult’s powerful speakers used to stop voices of families from reaching the hostages

Families according to the pictures:

ten months of picketing in front of Ashraf garrison

Never ending wait with the hope of visiting loved ones – the gates of Camp Ashraf base of the Rajavi cult in Iraq where over 3,000 people have been taken hostage by Massoud Rajavi the cult leader. He is openly threatening to massacre them (he calls it the Ashoura of the Mojahedin!!)
Ms. Soraya Abdollahi, the mother of one of the hostages who has been picketing in front of the gates of Ashraf Camp for the last 10 months, has announced that she will not leave until given access to her son. She is welcoming the arrival of new families. More elderly men and women and more children are arriving. Rajavi calls them the ‘special forces of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’. As if they are coming with their machine guns and missile launchers ready to attack the camp!

Will you never become tired? How long are you going to wait? Do you really believe that in this dirty international political world there is a place for such a thing as human rights? Don’t you think that as the political interests of some at this moment of time dictate, right now the interest of the invaders of the land of Iraq suggests that the west should support the terrorists in continuing their human rights abuse and using your children as gladiators and slaves in their terror campaign to serve their backers in the west?

Our children are kept only a few hundred meters from us. Could they not allow them to come nearer to the barbed wire so we can see them after all these years? As you can see in the picture the barbed wire is designed to keep people inside and not to run away (as a prison) and is not designed to protect the camp from intruders trying to get in. It is easy to see Camp Ashraf is a prison without visiting rights.

The distance between the families and their loved ones is filled with barbed wire, trenches, walls, surveillance posts, surveillance vehicles etc. Can the hand held loud speakers take our voices to our loved ones? Do they know that we are still sitting behind the wire? Do they have the same feeling as we do?

A father is saying that he is hopeful that as this palm tree is growing here, Rajavi’s heart would soften enough to let our children free

Families are planting new trees. A father is saying that he is hopeful that as this palm tree is growing here, Rajavi’s heart would soften enough to let our children free. How long is he intending to keep our children hostage?

The leaders of the garrison have placed powerful loud speakers between the families and the inside of the camp. The speakers are facing towards the inside of the camp, clearly demonstrating that this action is intended to stop the voices of the families from reaching the hostages inside. It is interesting that while Rajavi is doing this, he is also claiming that Ahmad Razani (murdered in the camp a couple of days ago) has committed suicide under the pressure of the loudspeakers used by the families. It is clear from the picture that the powerful loud speakers used by the cult (much more powerful than the ones used by the families) are facing toward the inside of the camp. The simple question is why Rajavi and his cult are so desperately frightened of the voices of the families and so afraid of their presence?

Translated by Iran Interlink

November 21, 2010 0 comments

MEK Camp Ashraf

Ahmad Razani a member of Mojahedin Khalq killed in Camp Ashraf

According to the news a member of Mojahedin Khalq stationed in their garrison, Camp Ashraf, in Iraq named Ahmad Razani has been killed by the agents of the Rajavi cult on the morning of Thursday 18th November 2010.

The information suggests that the body of the dead member was transferred to the internal hospital of the camp near the main gates on the morning of Thursday 18th and the cult leaders have claimed that he has killed himself by hanging himself in the main kitchen area.
Ahmad Razani a member of Mojahedin Khalq killed in Camp Ashraf
The Iraqi doctor in the hospital, after preliminary checks has announced that the cause of death was not suicide and therefore he has refused to sign the papers allowing the body to be buried and has sent the body to Iraq for post mortem investigation.

The families of the hostages who have been picketing outside the camp for the last 10 month only to get access and visiting rights with their loved ones, have been deeply affected by the news coming out the garrison.

Also some of the survivors of the cult who are currently in Iraq helping the families have been saddened by the news. They once again emphasised their deep concern over the security and the well being of the hostages taken by the cult in this camp and asked the Iraqi and international bodies to interfere in this ongoing human disaster.

One of the survivors of the cult who knew the murdered member, Ahmad Razani, said, “Ahmad was from Lorestan province and one of the long serving members of the Mojahedin Khalq. He refused to accept the so called ‘Maryam Ideological Revolution’ (cult jargon used to make members divorce and leave their children in order to be available to the cult leader Massoud Rajavi as sex slaves) and has been under severe pressure. He loved his family and this was always brought forward as his weakness in the organisation. He had two children (twins called Bahram and Shahnaz) who were deceived and brought to the camp from Europe and have been kept there ever since”.

Another Survivor of the cult said: “Bahram Razani (the son of Ahmad) was in our unit. He had a wide angle with the organisation and did not believe in the ideological leadership of the organisation and wanted to be allowed to go back to Germany from where he had been deceived and brought to the camp in Iraq. He was under constant pressure because of these demands”.

The Rajavi cult announced that Ahamad Razani committed suicide because of the ongoing noise from the loud speakers of the families picketing outside and the pressure these loud speakers have put on him! Of course everyone knows that the real systematic pressures which are being imposed on the trapped hostages inside this garrison (Camp Ashraf) on a daily basis are not comparable with the noise of some loud speakers.

The news from inside Camp Ashraf also suggests that the cult leaders are putting crippling pressures on the trapped members to write reports and in these reports reject their families and swear at them and lie about them. Every member is expected to use the ultimate swear words against his or her family members and clearly announce that he or she hates them all. According to witness statements, the cult members who show the slightest affection for their families or refuse to write reports and swear at them will undergo severe mental and physical punishments including long hours of interrogation, imprisonment and the threat of murder.

Apparently, in the case of the murder of Ahmand Razani, the leaders of the cult, after giving up about convincing him to cooperate, and after using every available brain washing technique resorted to physical elimination and murdered him. As usual they are now trying to show everything upside down and blame the picketing of the families for their own murderous act.

According to witness statements, the leaders of Rajavi cult have frequently announced that they will have to get rid of the families picketing outside as soon as possible because their presence at the gates of the garrison (Camp Ashraf) is affecting the cult members inside the camp (their presence works against the brainwashing tactics they are using on the victims trapped inside).

It is worth mentioning that the Rajavi cult has a history of murder and killings which they frequently announce as suicide attempts or friendly fire or self inflected gun fire or getting killed in the bombardments (in the case of the wars in Iraq). There are many cases of murder in the file of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation and its head Massoud Rajavi in the Judicial system of Iraq, but up until now the interference of some foreign backed powers has not allowed the system to pursue the normal judicial procedures.

November 20, 2010 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

MKO hostages’ Families on Their Ninth Month of Picketing

The Records:
After Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship, the main sponsor of Massoud Rajavi was toppled, a ray of hope lit the hearts of the families of the members of MKO (Rajavi cult). They thought that with Saddam Hussein removed from power in Iraq, the gates of Ashraf garrison would be open to the families and they would be able to see their loved ones after many years of waiting.

This hope soon faded when after a short time the American Forces took the place of Saddam Hussein for the Rajavi cult and gave the cult leaders an open hand to create the same circumstances for their followers. The report published by the American institute RAND for the Defense Department fully exposes the support of some American commanders for the cult’s leaders to be able to keep their followers imprisoned inside Ashraf garrison.

Since the conditions for travelling to Iraq became easier, many suffering families of the members of the destructive, terrorist cult (MKO), from various parts of the world and in different timings, approached Ashraf gates in Iraq and tried their chance to see their loved ones. Some visited several times through the years and got no results.
During this time the families who were attending outside Ashraf gate either returned empty handed or the cult leaders would make the particular member insult the family and complain why they have become the agent of the Iranian regime and why they intend to destroy Ashraf?!

Family Sit-in Starts:
In February 2009 some families of the trapped members of the Rajavi cult, as in previous times during the past few years, approached Ashraf gate and demanded visits with their relatives. The immoral attitude of cult officials and even attempting to beat up the families created great concern in them for the fate of their relatives. Some decided to form a picket line along the main entrance of Ashraf garrison and they announced that they would not be moved until they see their loved ones. Later more families joined them and gradually a movement preceded which has continued until now.

Many hardships such as expiring visas and limitations that the Iraqi government and U.S. forces imposed on the families made life for the families very tough – so that Massoud Rajavi said that the families would not stand for more than 20 days.

Since the families’ move to the front of Ashraf gate was spontaneous and without any previous planning, no precise date was recorded for its start. Regarding the residential hardship, some families returned to Iran but more families took their place and continued the picketing.

The New Round of Sahar Activities:
In June 2010, that is after 4 months had passed, the families’ move created increased motivation amongst the human rights activists in Europe and America, in particular amongst the former members of the MKO who were active in trying to help their former colleagues. This ended in the formation of a seminar in Paris on 19 June 2010. In this seminar Ms. Batul Soltani, a former member of the MKO leadership council and a founder of SFF who is residing in Europe now had a telephone conversation with Ms. Sorayya Abdullahi, a suffering mother of a captive member inside Ashraf garrison and the representative of picketing families. This dialogue was heard by the audience on both sides of the line. This seminar became a milestone for the activities round the demand of the families in Iraq, Europe and America.

The public activities of SFF declined a little since it has been more involved in legal activities on behalf of former members’ complains against the MKO in the Iraqi courts as well as having some officials moving to Europe. It must be said too that we were caught by surprise by the families’ action. But after this seminar and with the new form of Sahar website, our activities found a new pace with regards of informing the public about the families.

From the beginning, the families stationed outside Ashraf garrison approached the MKO officials and demanded to see their relatives, but every time they faced a humiliating attitude. The families decided initially to not seek any publicity over the issue in order to raise their chances of seeing their cherished ones. But the cult leaders started a political confrontation against the families by insulting them and threatening them and also accusing them.

The cult leaders clearly proved that they do not understand logic and they must be forced to respect other people’s rights as well as their own members’ rights by the public opinion and international organizations. Rajavi showed everyone that he finds himself right on all grounds and has no respect for other people’s ideas and emotions. He acts according to his cultic reactionary ideas and ruthlessly makes an old mother suffer and does not recognize any human rights.

Sized members flee from Ashraf:
During the past year, that is since the Iraqi police force managed to establish posts inside the entrances of the Ashraf cult garrison, a substantial number of members attempted to escape from the camp. These members, some of whom have been held captive inside the garrison for more than a quarter of a century, have had a bitter experience. They have no idea about modern science and technology and do not know anything about the outside world. Worse than all, they were in a critical mental situation after so many years of brainwashing and mind manipulation. They were afraid of anyone outside the cult and considered everything out there to be satanic and corrupt. Some of them were even afraid to give their names and they used to think that they are still under the influence of the cult. Some, even one year after leaving Ashraf, still have nightmares about there. But they are all content that they are out now and they only worry about their former colleagues who are still there.

Some of those who attempted to escape did so with the assumption that they might be tortured and then executed either by the Iraqis or by the Iranians. Some after spending one year in a hotel in Baghdad are still not ready to have their names published and do not wish to contact their families. Some say, in particular the women, that they do not have the nerve to see their relatives.

This applies to the families who are picketing outside the Ashraf garrison too. They do not wish to be photographed or for their names to be published. They clearly say that they do not want anyone to know that their relatives – who everyone thought had been missing in the war or has been martyred – have actually been helping Rajavi and Saddam Hussein.
What must be done?

On the one hand the issue of the MKO is a national security problem for the Iraqi government. As they say, this difficulty is a heritage from Saddam Hussein for the people of Iraq. The Iraqis want them out of their country but so far they have not been able to remove them. On the other hand this cult could be used by the U.S. or Israel against Iran. At least some elements in the west think that they might be useful as they are ready to use terrorists on the borders of Iran, so they try to preserve the cultic relationship and keep the members captive inside the garrison. But as far as the families are concerned they only have a legitimate humanitarian demand.

The families have every right to have free access to their relatives inside the garrison which is approved by all international regulations. If we consider the inhabitants of Ashraf as prisoners, still they have the right of free contact with their next of kin.

Apparently these families have no one but God to help them. No one can expect anything from the governments of the US, Iraq, Iran or etc. It is clear that international organizations such as the UN or ICRC have, for some reason, turned their back to this humanitarian problem and have closed their eyes. The families of course have created an extensive example of resistance with their bare hands which moves every human being. At least the families have prevented more people falling into the trap of the Rajavi cult. Rajavi has used the US soldiers to put pressure on the families who have come from very long distances just for a family visit. Rajavi of course has stopped investing in the Iranian people for his goal to reach to power in Iran and tries hard to attract support from the US and from Israel.

Those who really understand the situation of the families are the ones who also have someone in Ashraf garrison. The families and the former members whose relatives or friends are held captive there and have no way out, understand well that a tragic cultic ending the same as the cults of Jim Jones and David Koresh, or becoming like gladiators in modern slavery who must kill until they get killed, could threaten their loved ones.

In whatever county that you are, anywhere that you work and live, any thoughts or ideas that you have, any political stances that you might hold, it is necessary to let the world know about this human rights issue and act in any way you can. Rajavi and his international backers must be put under the pressure of public opinion. He is not prepared to recognize the rights of the families and his own followers and under the present political circumstances does whatever he desires.

We in the SFF who are facing the problem directly know that we have not done enough and we had to do much more than this. We do need help from those who understand our situation. Please don’t let the resistance of the families not reach the desired results. The sit-in by the families is a humanitarian move. Let’s share their cause by helping them.
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