As we marked the 32nd anniversary of mass political executions of 1988
in Iran, and the 42nd anniversary of the 1979 Revolution, the
publication of/Voices of a Massacre: Untold Stories of Life and Death in
Iran 1988/
<https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Nasser-Mohajer/dp/1786077779/counterpunchmaga>as
one of the first extensive scholarly books in English is a significant
contribution to the current scholarship on the post-revolutionary
Iran.Nasser Mohajer <https://independent.academia.edu/NasserMohajer>,
the author who has compiled, translated, and edited the text, is a
scholar of modern Iranian history based in Paris. He combined and
translated old and new materials into English and the six chapters of
the book contains, state document, testimonies, eyewitness descriptions,
reflections and memories of the loved ones of those executed and their
friends and comrades. Prior to the publication of this book, along with
International human rights organizations which have documented the
massacre, a few exiled Iranian writers, artists and political analysts
have published articles and made documentaries about the crimes. Ervand
Abrahamian’s/Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in
Iran/
<https://www.amazon.com/Tortured-Confessions-Ervand-Abrahamian/dp/0520218663/counterpunchmaga>,
University of California Press, 1999 is a significant scholarly work on
this topic. There are also publications by the Persian section of US
government-affiliatedhuman industrial complex
<https://historicly.substack.com/p/the-human-rights-industrial-complex>like
Geoffrey Robinson’s/The Massacre of Political Prisoners in Iran, 1988/
<http://www.unarts.org/H-II/ref/IMReport1988.pdf>, published by the
National Endowment for Democracy (NED)-affiliatedAbdorraman Boroumand
Foundation <https://www.iranrights.org/>in 2013 that provided witness
testimonies, and official statements exposing the crimes.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/02/19/the-human-rightsization-of-the-anti-imperialist-revolutionaries-massacre-in-iran/
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