DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran is destroying or redeveloping the sites of mass graves holding those executed in a 1988 wartime purge that killed as many as 5,000 people, a report released Monday alleges. The joint report by the London-based group Justice for Iran and Amnesty International calls new attention to the mass executions carried out nearly 30 years ago, which came at the end of Iran’s bloody war with Iraq. “It has not become a part of history yet,” Shadi Sadr, executive director of Justice for Iran, told The Associated Press. The report focuses on seven sites for which the group says it has reliable testimony, photo and video evidence and satellite imagery. “The actions include: bulldozing; hiding the mass graves beneath new, individual burial plots; constructing concrete slabs, buildings or roads over the mass graves; and turning the mass grave sites into rubbish dumps,” the report says.

Source: National Post April 30, 2018 00:00 UTC