- September 1, 2013 52 Iranian exiles killed at Iraq's Camp Ashraf - Washington Times Washington Times By Ashish Kumar Sen Iraqi security forces carried out a “massacre” of 52, about half of community of unarmed Iranian dissidents early Sunday at their camp north of Baghdad, the Iranian exiles said.The assault on Camp Ashraf began at 5 a.m. and lasted until late afternoon. Iraqi troops tied the dissidents’ hands behind their backs and shot them in the head according to a camp witness. Iraqi officials acknowledged the deaths but blamed them on infighting among the camp’s 100 residents. The U.S. Embassy in Iraq strongly condemned the “terrible events” at Camp Ashraf.The Mujahedin-e Khalq (MeK) has claimed a major attack on their exile camp in Iraq’s Diyala Province, Camp Ashraf, saying the troops attacked the camp and killed 52.
- The Mujahedin-e Khalq (MeK) has claimed a major attack on their exile camp in Iraq’s Diyala Province, Camp Ashraf, saying the troops attacked the camp and killed 51.
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Monday, September 02, 2013 govt version: raqi police and medical sources said five mortars hit the camp.
A police colonel said that in the aftermath of the rockets “some angry Ashraf residents came out and attacked the brigade protecting the camp, killing two soldiers and wounding three in clashes”.
A doctor at the main hospital in the provincial capital Baquba confirmed the toll.
An Iraqi official responsible for overseeing the camp said the blasts were caused not by mortars but by oil and gas containers exploding inside Ashraf.
“Not a single soldier entered Camp Ashraf,” said Haqi al-Sharifi.
“There was no attack from outside against the camp, but what seems to have happened is that some barrels of oil and gas inside Ashraf exploded. The police are investigating.”ocal hospitals reported two Iraqi soldiers were killed and three were wounded, which officials attributed to angry camp residents attacking an army brigade responsible for the camp.Clashes as Iranian exiles claim 51 dead in Iraq raidBAGHDAD: Clashes and explosions were reported in a camp housing Iranian exiles on Sunday, with the group claiming Iraqi troops killed 51 of their members, charges officials steadfastly denied.
The People’s Mujahedeen Organisation of Iran (PMOI), about 100 of whose members are living at Camp Ashraf in Diyala province near the Iranian border, also claimed security forces set fire to the group’s property in the camp, all of which was denied by Iraqi officials.
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Medics did not, however, report any casualties among Ashraf residents.
The United Nations did not confirm any of the varying accounts of Sunday’s unrest, but the UN refugee agency said “it appears that deadly force has been used and that a number of people have been killed or wounded”.
The UNHCR said it “strongly condemns this attack,” adding that, “the use of violence against a civilian population is unacceptable in any circumstances.”
The UN’s mission to Iraq said it was looking into the unrest, and called on the Iraqi government to investigate the incident.
Earlier this year at least eight people were killed in two mortar attacks on another camp housing the group, which is also known as the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK).
Officials and MEK spokespeople gave wildly differing accounts of the unrest on Sunday and it was not immediately clear what caused the explosions and clashes, or the extent of the casualties.
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The MEK insisted that the Iraqi army had entered Ashraf and killed 47 of its members in a “massacre” and set fire to property.
“Scores of PMOI members were wounded and are in critical conditions and a number have also been taken hostage,” Shahriar Kia, a spokesman for the group, said in a statement.
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The MEK was founded in the 1960s to oppose the shah of Iran, and after the 1979 Islamic revolution that ousted him it took up arms against Iran’s clerical rulers.
It says it has now laid down its arms and is working to overthrow the Islamic regime in Iran by peaceful means.
Britain struck the group off its terror list in June 2008, followed by the European Union in 2009 and the United States in September last year.
The UN has been working for months to resettle the group’s members outside of Iraq, with Albania most recently receiving dozens o
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