Return Camp Liberty residents’ personal weapons for self-defense, NGO demands

                    
Iranian dissidents in Camp Liberty should have their personal protection weapons returned to them for self-defense following serious threats and attacks as the Iranian regime’s intervention in Iraq grows, the International Committee in Search of Justice (ISJ) has demanded.
Threats against the camp near Baghdad airport have escalated on a daily basis and the West must now act urgently to protect them, ISJ President Alejo Vidal-Quadras said.
He wrote in a statement: 'Following serious terrorist threats by the Quds Force and the extremely slow resettlement of the residents, their personal protection weapons should be returned for self-defense.
'The 2,500 defenseless Iranian refugees from the PMOI-MEK in Camp Liberty near Baghdad airport face a grave and imperative threat. The Iranian regime’s interventions in Iraq grow by the day and its terrorist affiliated militias have escalated their threats against the Iranian dissidents in Camp Liberty.
'The record of the past three years shows no prospect of a swift resettlement of these residents. Therefore the ISJ calls on the United States and the United Nationsto assume special protective provisions on Camp Liberty.
'If the U.S. government is not going to transfer all Camp Liberty residents to the United States immediately, then, considering its direct responsibility for protection of each and every resident, it should hand over part of their personal protection weapons, which it consolidated in 2003, so that the residents could protect themselves against possible assaults by terrorist Quds Force and its militias that have an extensive presence in large parts of Iraq, including Baghdad.'
Mr. Vidal-Quadras added: 'This is crucial to prevent further tragedies. These weapons would offer them the least means of self-defense against attacks that the Government of Iraq claims are perpetrated by unknown entities. This is the residents’ basic right to be able to preserve their lives in the current turmoil in Iraq.'
The statement by ISJ presented the following background on issue:
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