Voices of a Massacre: Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781786077776)

In July 1988, the Islamic Republic of Iran agreed to bring an end to the brutal eight-year war with Iraq. Over the next two months, under the orders of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini, political prisoners around the country were secretly brought before a tribunal panel that would later become known as the Death Commission. They were not told what was happening and did not know that one 'wrong' answer concerning their faith or political affiliation would send them straight to the gallows.

Thousands of men and women were condemned to death, many buried in mass graves in Khavaran Cemetery in the vicinity of Tehran.

Through eyewitness accounts of survivors, research by scholars and memories of children and spouses of the deceased, Voices of a Massacre reconstructs the events of that bloody summer. Over thirty years later, the Iranian government has still not officially acknowledged that they ever took place.

Author: Nasser Mohajer
ISBN-10: 1786077779
ISBN-13: 9781786077776
Publisher: ONEWorld Publications
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2020
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.80d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2020