Iran destroys grave site of mass killings of political prisoners

Iranian authorities carried out mass executions of political prisoners between August 1988 and February 1989, often referred to as “prison massacres”. It was the largest mass executions since those carried out in 1980 and 1981 after the Islamic revolution in 1979.

Iranian authorities buried bodies in mass and individual unmarked graves in Khavaran. Even their families were banned to visit this site for a long time till couple of years ago after long outcry from their loved ones and international organizations like Amnesty they could have visit this site.

Now after more than 20 years of massacres, Iranian authorities determined to destroy anything that has to do with barbaric killings of innocents and even they destroyed markings on some areas that made by families of executed and covered most part of the site with soil and planted trees.

There is no hope that Iranian authorities would investigate these violations and people who were committed “prison massacre” but still Iranians and especially who lost their loved ones demand to know the truth, and bring to justice people who were responsible for these inhuman human slaughters.


Links:
Iranian Minorities Human Right Organisation
Khavaran: silencing the dead
Rooz (Persian Language)