US Congress resolution slams Iran atrocity

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A resolution recently introduced in the US House of Representatives condemned an atrocity that most Americans, indeed most Westerners, have never heard of: The 1988 killings of approximately 30,000 political prisoners in Iran.
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle chose to try to right that wrong by introducing Resolution 188, which deplores the murder of victims who “included thousands of people, including teenagers and pregnant women, imprisoned merely for participating in peaceful street protests and for possessing political reading material, many of whom had already served or were currently serving prison sentences.”
The massacre was carried out in such a way that word spread throughout Iran, terrorizing the populace and paralyzing thousands of families, neighborhoods and communities with grief. The cruelty was extreme. As the resolution noted, “the families of the executed were denied information about their loved ones and were prohibited from mourning them in public.” But the outside world was kept pretty much in the dark, or when confronted with flashes of reality, many chose to close their eyes.