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Frozen Massacred bodies were buried in the night
Iran: Frozen massacred bodies were buried in the night
Frozen massacred bodies were buried in the middle of the night
In this Interview, the investigator reporter, Haniff Mazroee of Norooz website
http://norooznews.ir/ , gives BBC the chilling account of the report of tens of graves in the Behesht-Zahra cemetery with unknown names. The frozen bodies were brought to Behesht-Zahra and buried in the middle of the night on two different dates. The officials of Iran deny the existence of such graves.
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On July 12th, after the election, when the mother of one of the post election victims was looking for the body of her beloved boy in a cold storage in South Tehran, by the name of Shahid Aminzadeh, encountered many bodies.
When we received the news, we published the news on the Norooz site on the same day.
Then we started investigating the news for its accuracy. We found out that there was an unusual amount of traffic in and out of the cold storage.
This was verified by the cold storage personnel.
We tried to find out where the bodies were transferred to.
In the following days after publishing the news about the bodies in Shahid Aminzadeh, we noticed the bodies handed to victims families were frozen.
As we posted one of the pictures on our website that belongs to Behzad.., the body of this victim was like a piece of ice. This would not happen even after 40 days if the body were kept in a regular morgue.
Based on our further investigation, the personnel of Behesht-Zahra reported to us that on July 12th, quite a few vehicles not belonging to Behesht-Zahra entered the cemetery.
The same thing repeated on July 15th.
Further investigation by our friends at Norooz showed the bodies were taken to the new block #302 and buried without identification.
This block is outside of the old borders of Behesh-Zahra located on the other side of BZ Freeway,
Reporert: Mr Mazroee, what were the reactions to the news? Apparently your site has been filtered after publishing this news. Is this correct? I mean after the news of cold storage on the site, the site is no longer available.
Mazrooe:Yes, after publishing this news, our site was filtered for the third time after the election.
We had to change our site address. Let me just continue on the story of unknown bodies,
We were able to access the burial license numbers issued by Behesht-Zahra and publish them.
After publishing that, one of the reactions we received was by Mr. Majid Nassir-Pour, the head of the Social Commission of the parliament said the parliament would look into the issue of the mass burials. It was good news to us that the issue would be investigated.
But to our surprise, Mr. Farhad Tajarri, a member of the National Security Commission and the head of Investigation Committee for the post election events declared the news of the un-identified mass burials as 100% a lie.
Reporter:Mr. Mazroee, the pictures you published shows a collection of graves that have no names on them just the license numbers, but how do link the two matters?
How do you proof that these graves belong to the same people that were arrested during the post-election unrest?
You see, maybe what youre saying is actually correct but the reaction to publishing of this news, I mean only hours after the news came out, a member of the National Security Commission comes out without any investigation and declares the absolute falsehood of the news and accuses us of lying, this makes me think that there is truth behind this story.
At first we tried to report this issue as ambiguous and short. In our first report, we only tried to state that there are unknown grave sites without name and ID.
- TAGS:
- iran,
- power,
- iran_election,
- freedom,
- revolution,
- 2009,
- june
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