A raid by Iraqi security forces on a camp of Iranian opposition exiles earlier this month set off an international outcry about human rights abuses and raised old concerns about Camp Ashraf and its inhabitants. The United Nations reports the raid left 34 dead rift gold and called on the Iraqi government to launch an inquiry. The inhabitants of Camp Ashraf - some 3,500 members and supporters of an Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mujahedin, also known as the MEK or the PMOI - were once welcomed by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. But now they are more often seen as an irritant for Baghdad and the recent attack again raised questions about just who the Mujahedin are and what their future is.
Exiled Iranians shout "Killers!" at Iraqi soldiers guarding their desert camp. These photos they say show victims killed by Iraqis in a raid on Camp Ashraf,rift gold northeast of Baghdad and base of the People’s Mujahedin.
The group has been in Iraq for decades - given shelter by Saddam Hussein in the 1980’s during the Iran-Iraq War.
But on this day there was not much to see when journalists toured parts of the Camp the day after the alleged raid.
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