Iran executed all adult men in one village for drug offences, official reveals
Source: The Guardian
UN anti-drug agency urged to stop funding Irans war on narcotics until Tehran ends use of death penalty for drug offences
The entire adult male population of a village in southern Iran has been executed for drug offences, according to Irans vice-president for women and family affairs.
The matter came to light earlier this week after Shahindokht Molaverdi revealed it during an interview with the semi-official Mehr news agency in rare comments from a senior government official highlighting the countrys high rate of executions of drug traffickers.
We have a village in Sistan and Baluchestan province where every single man has been executed, she said, without naming the place or clarifying whether the executions took place at the same time or over a longer period. Their children are potential drug traffickers as they would want to seek revenge and provide money for their families. There is no support for these people.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/26/all-adult-males-in-one-iranian-village-executed-for-drug-offences-official-says
ericson00
(2,707 posts)n/t
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)give a shit about inmates at all.
We are not one to criticize. The global war on drugs is a failure.
But it made private prison companies wealthy in this country.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)How cold hearted some are and it's hard to believe everyone was guilty. But this country is no better in fact it's probably more humane to kill them outright than a life in prison.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Abortionists? LGBT? South of the border? And our own war on drugs!
Would that they could, execute their problems away. Poll them. I bet there are 35% in favor of this history redux.
Are we that much better? Then there's Gitmo...
I am seriously worried.
Rafale
(291 posts)A GOP wet dream.
Judi Lynn
(160,583 posts)Page last updated at 02:17 GMT, Thursday, 12 June 2008 03:17 UK
Peruvians seek relatives in mass grave
By Dan Collyns
BBC News, Ayacucho, Peru
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According to the findings of Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2003, those victims - exactly 123 men, women and children - were buried in the remote hamlet of Putis.
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Despite its remoteness, the testimony of relatives made the main grave easy to find.
It was shallow and, on excavation, revealed a twisted mass of skulls, bones and the remains of the clothing people were wearing on the day they were killed.
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"We have already found evidence that people may have been shot while in the grave, we have found bullets under the bodies embedded in the dirt."
The victims - all peasant farmers from the area - had been tricked by the military, who had set up a base in Putis, into digging their own grave.
In 1983 the region, Huanta, was controlled by the Shining Path - a brutal Maoist guerrilla group who had declared war on the state. They had killed all the local officials and the people had fled to the mountain peaks.
In November 1984, the army set up its base in Putis and invited the local population to live there under their protection. They asked them to dig a fish pond; then on 13 December they killed everyone and buried them there.
After the massacre, the soldiers sold off the villagers' livestock, according the 2003 commission report.
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Aurelio Condoray says he lost about 80 members of his family in the violence of that period. He, like many, stayed away for years.
He settled in the jungle, returning only to find the area abandoned.
Only now, he says, his gentle eyes widening with excitement, may he return.
"I want to bury my mother and brothers, to give them a Christian burial so they can finally have peace," he says.
More than 20 years may have passed, but the grief is still raw. The relatives gather at the graveside and begin to weep. Some point as if they recognise a scrap of clothing amid the skeletal remains.
As they sob, they mutter to themselves and their dead. Finally, heads bowed and hats off, they join in a communal prayer which lasts for several minutes.
More:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7449079.stm
floppyboo
(2,461 posts)that these stories aren't front page when they happen any and everywhere. Instead we get SOMA tv. It's going to change if we demand it.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)like we do.
Judi Lynn
(160,583 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,836 posts)Including the Imam and any gov't officials who might live there?
elljay
(1,178 posts)Baluchestan province is the home of Baluchi ethnic people (who also live in Afghanistan and Pakistan). They are ethnically different from the Iranian Persians and are Sunni Muslim instead of Shia. I doubt there would be much respect for their religious leaders.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)louis-t
(23,295 posts)More like an excuse to kill political enemies.
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)surely everyone could not have shared the same level of guilt.
Pakistan executes someone for alleged blasphemy.
Anyone see anything in common between the way of thinking in these countries?