MISSILE ATTACK ON CAMP LIBERTY KILLS 23 MEMBERS OF IRAN’S PMOI IN IRAQ

In a vicious and criminal missile attack on Camp Liberty in Iraq on Thursday, October 29, 2015, at least 23 Iranian refugees members of the main Iranian opposition group, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PMOI (Mujahedin-e Khalq, MEK), were brutally murdered. At least one woman is among the Liberty residents who were killed. Twenty-two of the injured have been transferred to a hospital in Baghdad. However, two of the injured have lost their lives in the hospital due to the severity of their wounds.

According to the latest information received from Camp Liberty, over 80 missiles of all types have hit the camp that houses Iranian opposition members. Craters as deep as 2 meters and 3.5 meter wide have been created in some impact areas. The intensity of the explosions is to the extent that many housing units and their protective T-walls have been destroyed or fallen down.

Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of Iranian Resistance, strongly condemned the heavy missile attack on Camp Liberty and declared: “The government of Iraq and the United Nations who signed a Memorandum of Understanding and built a Temporary Transit Location (TTL) since 2011, are formally and legally accountable for this attack. In our view, however, as was the case in the six previous bloodbaths in Ashraf and Liberty, the Iranian regime’s agents in the government of Iraq are responsible for this attack and the United States and the United Nations are well aware of this fact.”

“We had already warned about such an attack. Recently, too, 26 members of the US House of Representatives and 32 prominent political and military American personalities as well as 70 members of the French National Assembly warned the US, UN and the EU on their responsibility in this regard,” Mrs. Rajavi added.