I, Fariborz and unidentified graves

The last time I saw him was Sept. 2003. With his calm and sincere face and lovely smile and with his tall stature he embarrassed and kissed me. At that time I could never imagine that I would never see him again…. Many years ago when I was a school teacher, despite our difference or age, my cousin Fariborz who was then a 13-14 years old student was one of my closest friends. What had linked us together more than family relationship was our common goal; i.e., freedom. This goal had directed both of us to support PMOI. However, because the ruling reactionary and dictatorial regime of mullahs had no tolerance for freedom of thought and human rights, very soon it started its nationwide wave of suppression, and known supporters of opposition organizations in particular PMOI were executed in large groups.

 In order to continue struggle and by admitting the danger of torture and execution, those supporters who were  less known like myself and Fariborz had no other choice than distribution of  leaflets and flyers and writing slogans on street walls… We continued our activities until I decided to leave the country due to threat of arrest and execution. Yet I managed to have my contact with Fariborz inside Iran. This was coincident with brutal massacre of 30000 political prisoners in Iran that provoked human rights activists including Fariborz with more motivation to reveal crimes of the mullah’s regime. This nationwide motivation all over Iran, led to disclosure of names and specifications of thousands of victims of regime’s secret executions and discovery of some hidden mass graves including the ones in Khavaran.
However, neither I, nor Fariborz could ever imagine that one day and in another massacre in Ashraf, Fariborz himself along with 51 of his friends would be brutally massacred by Special Forces of Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki. Two years after this crime that led to a wave of worldwide condemnation by the US, EU , UN Secretary General, UNHCR, UNHRC and many governments still no independent report has been put out about this crime.  After rushed burying of the victims to prevent disclosure of any details of this crime, and despite many follow-ups of the families of the victims from UNAMI, still we have not received any information about the location of the grave yard of our love ones.
Therefore, in order to raise the voice those martyrs and our cries for freedom to the world, I and other families of the martyr join our voice to that of Maryam Rajavi as the leader of the freedom loving movement of Iranian people and ask all honest and descent people of the world to join Maryam Rajavi  in the great meeting of June 13 that calls for a free and democratic Iran and rejection of a the anti-women fundamentalist and terrorist mullah’s regime. Maryam Rajavi, freedom fighters or the Iranian resistance and more than 100000 Iranians from all over the world will welcome you.

M-A