Khavaran cemetery
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Khavaran cemetery is a cemetery located in South East of Tehran. It was used mainly as a graveyard for the religious minorities such as Christians, and recently Bahá'ís. However it was used as a mass grave site containing thousands of corpses from the 1988 executions of Iranian prisoners by the government of Iran.[1]
On January 25, 2009 it was reported that the Khavaran cemetry had been demolished by the regime, sparking condemnation from Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi and Iran's most prominent dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri.[2]
[edit] Trivia
Islamic Republic supporters call this cemetery "لعنتآباد" (lanat-abad, the damned place)[citation needed].
[edit] References
- ^ BBCPersian.com report Retrieved on 28-1-2007.
- ^ [1].
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