Iran exiles 'killed in Iraq raid'
BBC
29-Jul-2009 (4 comments)

Eyewitnesses say Iraqi police have surrounded the People's Mujahideen of Iran (PMOI) camp and clashes are continuing inside.

Iran wants the camp closed. The exiles fear they will be forcibly repatriated.

The US gave the camp some protection until it handed security control back to Iraq earlier this year.

The PMOI said Iraqi riot police stormed the camp using batons and live fire on Tuesday.

Amnesty International said it was "seriously concerned" about the incident, and had seen footage which "clearly showed" Iraqi forces beating people repeatedly.

There are contradictory reports coming out of Ashraf about what sparked the violence.

Police say residents of the camp fired teargas at them but the PMOI says it was the police who fired the tear gas.

An Iraqi official told AFP news agency more than 50 Iranians had been arrested.

Iraqi officials said they were trying to establish a police post in the camp, north of Baghdad. "It is our territory and our right to enter, to impose Iraqi law on everybody," a defence ministry spokesman told al-Arabiya television.

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Paymaneh Amiri

Camp Ashraf's sad ending

by Paymaneh Amiri on Wed Jul 29, 2009 08:34 AM PDT

It is appalling to see this happen.  For months PMOI leaders have known that the camp and its residents are not welcome on Iraqi territory.  Why haven't they done anything to get their people out of Iraq?  Offering them to IRI at the last moment was another lame step in "leadership."  We have known that IRI is the only country that really wants the camp residents, but we know what for! 

It is inexcusable to have let this happen.  At least seven people already dead is totally unacceptable.  



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AK69

Khianatkaran!

by AK69 on Wed Jul 29, 2009 05:19 PM PDT

- I give a shit abot dead mojahedin crap as much as I give a shit about mullahs.

That said, only 2.5 billion to go and we have cured our over-population problem just like that. Good times... Good times ahead!

AK69 

Bar Labe Goore Man, Avaz Bekhan


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Ali Akbar

Sorry to say this but Obama screwed up

by Ali Akbar on Wed Jul 29, 2009 02:48 PM PDT

this will be a stain on his presidency


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verytass

feel sorry for the idiots for trusting their lives to rajavis

by verytass on Wed Jul 29, 2009 01:21 PM PDT

many of Mojahedeen were nothing more than desperate souls who were taken advantage by Rajavis' mafia. I feel sorry for those sorry individuals but this outcome was rather predictable. Perhaps it's time to create a truly indigenous resistant movement without any ties to soviets, saddam or israelies 


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