Who can we say that this anger is killing generation after generation?
On the eve of the 21st anniversary of the massacre of political prisoners in the 1960s, the people of Iran have once again been subjected to a vicious attack by the dark-minded rulers of religion and capital and their oppressive apparatus. People are being shot in the streets, beaten with batons and clubs, arrested, tortured, killed, and their lifeless bodies are being piled up in morgues and dungeons.
What is happening in Iran today is a repetition and continuation of the popular struggles that raised the flag of liberation and freedom in the 1979 uprising. The Iranian masses, with their millions in the streets, rewrote revolutionary history with their struggles for justice and freedom, which began with the Bahman Uprising of 1979 and continued with the Khordad Uprising of 2009.
The history of Iran is a bloody and tragic one. The kings killed, the religious rulers killed even more brutally, and they wrote the contemporary history of Iran more bloody than ever. In the name of the people, they stole the revolution from the people, seized power in the name of the people, suppressed the people, and killed the people in the name of the people. In the 1960s and the following years, they tortured, hanged, and shot tens of thousands of the children of the Iranian people in prisons.
We, former political prisoners and families of those who died in the 1960s, organized in the Political Prisoners Center, while expressing solidarity with the struggles of the Iranian people and sympathy and solidarity with the families of young girls and boys who died in the streets from bullets, blows with batons and clubs, and in the regime’s dungeons under torture, emphasize the defense of anonymous political prisoners who are resisting the torture of the regime’s executioners.
We will not forget or forgive the killing of political prisoners in the 1960s, nor the killing of young people in recent events, nor the brutal rape of innocent girls like Taraneh Mousavi, whose lifeless body was burned with cruelty and mercilessness.
We intend to turn the 16th gathering on the killing of political prisoners into a platform for the voices of the rights-seeking and freedom-seeking masses of the Iranian people, into a platform to echo the cry for justice of the mothers, fathers, wives, children, sisters, and brothers of two generations of Iranian children who were murdered in prison and on the streets by the Islamic Republic regime.
To advance this important cause and to hold a broad and powerful 21st anniversary and transform it into a platform to defend the people’s ongoing struggles against the Islamic Republic and for the release of political prisoners, we invite all freedom-loving people to the program.
Iranian Political Prisoners’ Association (in exile) – Stockholm Branch
10th of Mordad 1388 equals 1st of August 2009