May 26, 2018
Amnesty International says the Islamic Republic is systematically destroying or building over the mass graves of those executed in 1988. Thousands of prisoners, mostly members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq, were taken from their cells and killed in the months after the Mojahedin-e Khalq sent its military forces deep into Iran just before the end of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War. The report says 120 burial sites have been identified. It says the actions to obscure the sites include: “bulldozing, hiding the graves beneath new, individual burial plots; constructing concrete slabs, buildings or roads over the mass graves; and turning the mass grave sites into rubbish dumps.”
