WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MEK IN CAMP LIBERTY?
Published: 08 February 2018

by Mahmood Hakamian
Over the past few days, you’ve been hearing the real story of the time that Iranian Resistance group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) spent in Iraq.
At the end of the last instalment, you learnt that after several horrific attacks on them, the MEK was being forcibly moved to a different camp in Iraq. However, you’re about to find out that they wouldn’t be safe until they were relocated to Europe.


ASHRAF
UNFIT LIVING CONDITIONS
The MEK had transformed their previous home of Camp Ashraf into a fully functioning city, so you can imagine how they felt about being moved to a place which an expert from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) concluded was unfit to accommodate them.
Camp Liberty no electricity, no running or potable water, no sewage system, no public lighting, no room for recreation, damaged kitchen and dining facilities, and inadequate living quarters. Still Martin Kobler, Special Representative for Iraq and the Head of United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), agreed to the relocation without allowing the MEK to view it and produced a report that said it met the international humanitarian standards required.