Khavaran cemetery

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17th anniversary of the executions at Khavaran
17th anniversary of the executions at Khavaran

Khavaran cemetery is a cemetery located in South East of Tehran. It was used mainly as a graveyard for the religious minorities such as Hindus, Christians, and recently Bahá'ís. However it was used as a mass grave site containing thousands of corpses from the 1988 executions of Iranian prisoners by the government of Iran. [1]

[edit] Trivia

Islamic Republic supporters call this cemetery "لعنت‌آباد" (lanat-abad, the damned place)[citation needed].

[edit] References

  1. ^ BBCPersian.com report Retrieved on 28-1-2007.

[edit] See also

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