Iranian-American communities in Los Angeles remembered, in a somber ceremony, the victims of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran.
Following the 1988 imposed cease fire agreement of the 8-year war between Iran and Iraq, Khomeini, the then Supreme Leader of the mullahs ordered the unconscionable massacre of more than 30,000 unwavering political prisoners in groups of 100 or even up to 300 prisoners in just one day. This horrifying act continued all throughout the 1988 summer in which some 30,000 political prisoners affiliated with the main opposition group People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PMOI (Mujahedin-e Khalq, MEK), were summarily executed.
The brutal prison massacre, which has been described by some international human rights lawyers as the greatest crime against humanity that has gone unpunished since the Second World War, saw the execution of some 30,000 defenseless prisoners.
Eye-witness accounts of the massacre were given by former political prisoners at the LA memorial.
