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18 August 2012 The United Nations top official in Iraq

today hailed the announcement of a further transfer of

Iranian exiles currently located in a camp outside of the

capital, Baghdad.

I welcome the announcement that the next group of 400

residents are willing to commence the move from Camp

Ashraf to Camp Hurriya immediately after the Eid holiday,the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Iraq,

Martin Kobler, said in a news release issued by the UN

Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), which he also heads.

A Muslim holiday marking the end of the month of fasting

known as Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr is observed on Monday in

various countries around the world.

In line with a memorandum of understanding signed in December by the UN and the Iraqi Government, some two-thirds

of the residents, or nearly 2,000 people, have been relocated from Camp Ashraf now known as Camp New Iraq to a

temporary transit location near Baghdad, known as Camp Hurriya, where a process to determine refugee status is being

carried out by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Close to 1,300 individuals Iranian exiles, many of whom are members of a group known as the People's Mojahedeen

of Iran are still awaiting transfer from Camp Ashraf to the transit centre.

I request the Government of Iraq to be generous with regard to the humanitarian needs of the residents, Mr. Kobler

said. I also reiterate my appeal to Member States to accept the residents for resettlement in their countries.

In addition to Mr. Kobler, Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon has also previously urged all parties to avoid violence and

work together to peacefully conclude the transfer of the remaining Iranian exiles.

The UNAMI news release also noted that there has been continuous progress in efforts to improve the living conditions

in Camp Hurriya.

The United Nations continues to support a peaceful solution to the issue of Camp Ashraf, continues to monitor the

relocation process, and provides 24/7 monitoring in Camp Hurriya, the Mision stated, adding that it calls upon the

remaining residents of Camp Ashraf to also start preparations for additional convoys to Campy Hurriya, in order to

peacefully complete the relocation process.

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Iraq: UN envoy welcomes latest transfer of

Iranian exiles to transit centre

The United Nations top official in Iraq today hailed the announcement of a further transfer of Iranian exiles

currently located in a camp outside of the capital, Baghdad.

UN News Centre, August 18 2012

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Liberty base is a huge military facility near

Baghdad International Airport, which was

originally created as part of a bigger base

called Victory, to house American troops in

Iraq. Formerly named Victory North, after

September 2004 it was renamed Liberty.

Over the current year some 2000

inhabitants of Camp Ashraf of the

Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO,

Rajavi cult), were moved to this base as a

United Nations Temporary Transit Camp

from where they are to be eventuallytransferred out of Iraq. In May the MKO

stopped cooperating with the relocation

process and at the present time around

1200 members of the MKO have remained stuck in Camp

Ashraf.

Information received from inside both Ashraf and Liberty

relates that all other tasks can be stopped inside the MKO

so that the process of mind manipulation and brainwashing

sessions are not stopped. These reports state that each

member attends 3 to 5 meetings of this kind each day. Inthese meetings - under the label of opportunism - the issue

of escaping from the cult is discussed and everyone is

continuously told that leaving the cult is the most severe sin

that a follower can commit. The MKO argues that leaving

the cult undermines the resistance against Iran and

damages their struggle. By doing this they intend to create

mental barriers for the members to keep them captive

inside the organization.

ComparingThese reports from inside the MKO indicate that there is an

ideological argument within the Organization which forbids

the members to compare themselves with others.

Whats new at Camp Liberty in Baghdad?... Information received from inside both Ashraf and Liberty relates that all other tasks can be stopped inside theMKO so that the process of mind manipulation and brainwashing sessions are not stopped. These reports state thateach member attends 3 to 5 meetings of this kind each day. In these meetings - under the label of opportunism - theissue of escaping from the cult is discussed and everyone is continuously told that leaving the cult is the most severe

sin that a follower can commit. The MKO argues that leaving the cult undermines the resistance against Iran and

damages their struggle. By doing this they intend to create ...

Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, 14 August 2012

http://www.saharngo.com/en/story/1457

Since the relocation process began in February several

members who have been transferred to Camp Liberty have

had routine interviews with UN officials in Iraq. These

people were put forward by the MKO and the process is still

ongoing. Others were puzzled as to why some people have

been sent for the interviews and they havent. They have

been asked to report to their superiors if they have such

sinful thoughts.

The same argument has been introduced in Camp Ashraf.

Some are wondering why they have not been sent to Camp

Liberty and are made to remain in Ashraf. They also have to

report that they are comparing themselves and their

situation to that of others.

Possibility of going abroadAnother argument amongst the residents of the Liberty is

about the possibility of their being sent abroad. Since the

camp is located near to the airport, most inhabitants watch

the airplanes taking off with sorrow and regret.

The cult leaders have asked the members to report such

sinful desires to their superiors as a cultic practice. These

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kinds of thoughts are severely denounced and are

considered as ideological weakness.

Keeping the members busyOne method of manipulation used by destructive

mind control cults is to keep their followers busy

with useless tasks all the time in order to prevent

them from thinking freely. This method is used

systematically inside the Rajavi cult to render the

members so exhausted that their minds cannot

function properly.

When members were transferred from Ashraf to

Liberty they were only permitted to take personal

possessions. But the MKO managed to also take

some stretchers as medical equipment. These

stretchers are now used to shift sand. They have

the members move sand which is stored in one

place and which is meant to be used to pave the

passageways between the bungalows. The

members are forced to relocate this sand from one

place to another using the stretchers, and they

keep doing this using various excuses. They are

also asked to separate out large pebbles from the

sand with the excuse that when they pave the

pathways these would hurt the elderly residents.

The exhaustion caused by this kind of hard work

prevents the members from thinking about their

uncertain future and the deadlock they are in.

ConflictsThe reports from Camp Liberty also indicate that

there is constant conflict between the members

and their superiors. Such conflicts are due to the

tense situation inside the camp caused by the

uncertainty of almost everything and manifest in

swearing and name calling. The extent of this

conflict is at a stage that one can predict they will

soon turn into physical conflict.

GuestsFurther information reveals that some members

who insist on leaving the cult are being coerced to

stay as guests. Since they have been made afraid

of the outside world and they believe they have

nowhere to go, they have accepted this. This has

been Rajavis latest technique to keep his followers

inside the cult and prevent them from leaving.

These people are also asked to participate in the

meetings but they refuse and say that they are only

guests.

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Why do not Mutlaq ask Saudi Arabia to

host the Khalq organization?

Sami Jawad Kadhim /August 25 2012The strange relationship between Saleh al-Mutlaq and Khalq

organization is a relationship that makes question marks

accompanied by doubts that rose around ; especially that he

represents a bloc not the government.

This organization had disgraceful positions against the Iraqi people

and it had been brought in Iraq at the time of the tyrant for political

considerations with Iran and such a thing is done by most of the

countries in the world . As for Baghdad, it hosted Khalq because

Iran hosted the Supreme Council, but was the work of this

organization with Iran exclusively over years? There are evidencesof eyewitnesses for the criminality of this organization against the

Iraqi people. It had the authority at the time of the tyrant to arrest

any Iraqi or even fire the citizens which had happened in front of

my eyes in Baghdad. They had a place in which they could arrest

and torture in Karrada not to mention the participation of their

confrontational troops in annihilation of the uprising. Away from all

these actions, for which they must be punished, different things

have changed and Iraq had become in good relationship with Iran

and the remaining l of this organization on the land of Iraq has

become a controversial. However, Iraq worked according to its

origin and it has not handed over this organization to Iran despite

the fact that there are similar organizations in the international

community in terms of practicing terrorism striving to maintain theentity of this organization to be used in the interests of certain

political future acts.

Saleh al-Mutlaq is desperate in defending of this organization, and

it was strange that he was chosen as a president of one of the

annual conferences. So what is his relationship with a Conference

annually held by this organization?, He was the most naysayers to

send out Khalq from Iraq . He may have tense positions with Iran.

Such organization makes tense positions between the Iraqi

government and people with Iran if it remains on the land of Iraq.

Al-Mutlaq now calls America to remove this organization from the

list of terrorist organizations. He says this organization has a

friendly relationship with Diayala citizens and he says, "The peopleof Diayala as far as I know have good relations with this

organization and they wish the organization would continue in the

same manners and ideals by which it treated their brothers in Iraq

and join together to lift grievances from Iraq and the Iraqis . Their

role remains positive in the defense of their brothers in Iraq and in

support of their brothers in Iraq and stand against any force trying

to offend the relationship between the two peoples of Iraq and

Iran. "

What treatment with the Iraqis does Mutlaq mean? We met the

people of Diayala who have been displaced to other provinces.

They stressed that terrorist acts were launched from Ashraf Camp

and this is not excluded. It is curious that the Iraqi government is

careless in uncovering the facts about the role of this terroristOrganization against the Iraqi people. Anyway our last proposal to

Mutlaq is: Why does not he demand Saudi Arabia to have the

organization's headquarters in the Kingdom? Especially the

position of the Saudi Arabia towards Iraq and Iran is known.

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Dear Mr. Kobler,

We are families of Mujahedin- E- Khalq

organization members. We founded Nejat

Society (Salvation Society) about a decade

ago. We have worked here to help release our

loved ones who are holding as hostages in the

MEK.

We suffer long-term separation from our

children who have been imprisoned at camps

of Mujahedin Khalq Organization. The group

does not allow us to meet them. We have

been picketing in front of Camp Ashraf, Iraq

for over two and a half years.

Appreciating the efforts by the UN, ICRC and particularly Mr. Martin

Kubler who recently presented a roadmap to evacuate Camp Ashraf,

we urge them and other related international bodies to pave the way

for us to visit our loved ones.

Despite the tough work done by the UN and Iraqi government to

move Ashraf residents to Temporary Transit Location (Camp Liberty),

the MKO leaders seek to blockade or at least to slow the relocation

process by excuse-making and trouble-mongering. They try to tighten

the bars of the cult around the members by preventing them from

visiting their families.

Where in the world people including prisoners are forbidden to

visit their family and friends?

We want our children back in the warm embrace of the family.

The following is a list of requests Nejat families ask to be addressed:

1-that the 1200 people remaining at Camp Ashraf be moved to TTL

as soon as possible.

2- That residents of Camp Liberty (TTL) be allowed to meet with their

families, relatives and friends freely without the presence of the MKO

officials.

3-That UNHCR help find third countries for residents of TTL and help

them get residency or refugee there.

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Nejat families urge immediate visit with their

children...That residents of Camp Liberty (TTL) be allowed to meet with their families, relatives and friends freely

without the presence of the MKO officials...

Nejat Bloggers,August 06 2012

4- That residents be granted the right to makephone calls and send letters to their families.

Some of them have been never allowed to

contact their families for over three decades.

Once again, we support Mr. Martin Koblers

roadmap on Camp Ashraf and condemn the MKO

for the barriers it makes against the plan which

complies with the rights of Ashraf and liberty

residents and their families . Sincerely,

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