In the Memory of a Dreadful Tragedy     

Petty for enemies is simple-mindedness.  Islam’s decisiveness against the God’s enemies is of the fundamental and undoubted principle of Islamic discipline.  We hope that with your revolutionary anger and hatred in regards to the enemies of Islam, you earn the Almighty God’s endorsement...”[i]

In the name of God: execution [ii]

Those folks, who are in charge of making crucial decisions, do not hesitate or recess, but attempt to treat the infidels with extremist manner possible.  Having doubts in the judicial revolutionary Islamic issues is to connive at the pure and holy martyr’s blood.[iii]

September of this year, 13 years of the barbaric crimes of collective execution of thousands of our country’s best youngs - by the agents of the religious rulers – in the dreadful prison of the cleric rulers has elapsed.  In this dreadful crime, thousands of the brave citizens of this country that in a way had resisted its medieval ruling or had possessed beliefs different from the reactionary and totalitarian ideology of the Islamic regime’s authorities, in which Khomieni was the leading figure, with the order of the founder of the Islamic Republic, and in the name of “God’s enemies and for the God’s content”, and in the name of “executing the undoubted principles of Islamic discipline” were massacred by the regime’s cleric agents.

Now, we remember this inhumane crime with the latest disclosures in the recent years, especially with that of Montazeri who himself was from the top ranks in the course of the events of that period, important information has leaked out, though the revealing of all the dimensions of the tragedy and the barbarity of the regime requires more time, and in essence the overthrowing of the regime.  Of course, as experience has proven, the massacring of political and conscious prisoners in the summer of 1988 was not performed by the regime’s authorities and above all Khomieni merely as a response to the political situation back then or to the measures taken by any political organization or for creating further palpitation in the country’s political atmosphere, and escaping the side-effects created by the defeat from the 8 years old war with Iraq, so as to prevent the spread of public anger; rather, the roots of the regime’s commitment in its totality must be sought out in its philosophical essence.  From the perspective of a regime that considers its ruling divine, and considers opposing and suppressing its opponents as “God’s enemies”, such crimes are legitimate and necessary.  The mentioned characteristics were revealed the day after seizing power: obstructing and monopolizing the political atmosphere of the country, the suppression of all the political forces consisting of left, right, and in general all the intellectual forces, the Islamization of all the aspects of society, the suppression of liberties, the brutal suppression of the Kurdish, Azeries, Baluch, Turkman and Arab nationalists who had brought up their national demands after the victorious Revolution of 1979, forcing the people of Iran to chose the system of Islamic Republic versus the monarchial system – that had fundamentally failed – are the visible instances of such characteristics.  In other words, the collective and barbaric killing of thousands of political prisoners composes one of the most apparent cases of suppression and brutality of the regime and its criminal rulers against the people of Iran.

            With such attributes, Khomieni, only a year away from his death, without any hesitation took measures to issue decree and ordered “quickly vanish the enemies of Islam” and “death Council”[iv] in central and other parts of the country without demanding a slight of clarification, secretly took the lives of many political prisoners in country’s notorious garrisons, and in a very short period thousands of those who were reluctant to confess were forcefully killed (shot or hanged).  Of course, reluctance to confess or not was a pretext for the “death council” to issue the execution order of political prisoners because in principle confessing or remaining silent had only one outcome: execution.  The agreement of the two people from the three people body who composed the death squads (councils?) made up files by the prison chiefs, and even taking revenge by the prison guards could result in the death verdict of the prisoners.

            Taking inhumane measures, and the continuing of the Islamic regime’s atrocities against opponents within the national borders and even abroad certifies the argument that this regime in principle believes in eradicating its opponents, and accomplishing its objectives in any way possible.  In this regard, yesterday’s friends and the faithful of the system, and today’s critics have not been protected.  In short, the system is a divine order and no body should commit the crime of criticizing or opposing it!

            In the 13^th anniversary of the barbaric massacre of thousands of freedom activists, and in circumstances in which the resistance of the people of our country has taken important steps towards freedom and the overthrowing of the regime, it is necessary that the leaders of more than 20 years of resistance against this back-warded regime (parties, progressive freedom activist figures, political prisoners relieved of the dreadful prisons of the Islamic regime and ...) utilize all their power to convey the reality concerning the crimes of this inhumane regime with the full awareness of our compatriots especially the youth, and the world public opinion so as to pave the ground for the trial of the murderers of our compatriots.  This is the least of possible initiatives that can be performed on the commemoration of our martyrs to prevent the spread of reactionism.

            In the commemoration of the massacre of the political prisoners of the summer of 1988, remember the memory of all those who sacrificed their lives that due to their dedication and commitment, struggle for the toppling of the Islamic regime and the establishment of freedom and democracy continues.

Article translated from KURDISTAN, Organ of the Central Committee of PDKI

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