Over 30 NGOs sign Ahwazi solidarity declaration on Intifada anniversary

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Hundreds of Ahwazi Arabs and their supporters demonstrated outside the European Commission offices in BrusselsAhwazi_EUdemo_2013_380_x_254
today to mark the eighth anniversary of the Ahwazi intifada.

More than 30 non-governmental organisations signed a declaration to condemn the ongoing persecution of Ahwazi Arabs:

“We the undersigned condemn the planned executions of Ahwazi Arab activists, we condemn past killings and future killings of those whose only crime was to raise a voice of freedom against ethnic persecution.

“We condemn the successive regimes in Tehran that have taken land from indigenous Ahwazi Arabs, taken lives, taken opportunities to learn in their native tongue, destroyed and polluted the beauty of the once fertile and verdant environment, stolen the once mighty waters of the Karoon and Karkeh and robbed the freedom of the Ahwazi Arabs to determine their own destinies.


“We state that the killings and ethnic cleansing are the result of nearly ninety years of violent persecution and the only remedy is the self-determination of the Ahwazi Arab nation.

“We demand that Ahwazi Arabs be allowed to form their own cultural associations and political parties on their own land so that they may debate their collective destiny without fear, intimidation or violence.

“We affirm this right under international law and in the name of the Ahwazi Arab martyrs who have died for freedom from tyranny. The creation of more martyrs by the tyrants of Tehran will only strengthen our resolve to shake off the shackles of dictatorship and fight the ongoing ethnocide of our people.

“We call on the international community to act in solidarity with the cause of the indigenous Ahwazi Arabs.”

Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO)
British Ahwazi Friendship Society
Ahwazi Arab Solidarity Network
Ahwazi Centre For Human Rights (UK)
Ahwazi Democratic Popular Front (ADPF)
Ahwazi Youth Community Ahwaz Human Rights Organization (AHRO)
Democratic Solidarity Party of Al-Ahwaz (DSPA)
Ahwazi Justice Movement
Ahwaz Studies Center (ASC)
Ahwaz Education Foundation
European Ahwazi Human Rights Organisation

Ahwazi Canadian Centre For Human Rights
Youth Union of Ahwaz
Ahwaz Education and Human Rights Foundation
Ahwaz Studies Center
Danish-Ahwazi Friendship Society
Ahwazi-Arabs for Democracy and Justice in Iran
Patriotic Arab Democratic Movement in Ahwaz (PADMAZ)
Arabistan Studies Centre
Arab Front for the Liberation of Ahwaz (AFLA)
Centre for Combating Racism and Discrimination against Arabs in Iran (CCRDAI)
Ethnic Human Rights Defenders in Iran
South Azerbaijan Human Rights Centre (SAHRC)
South Azerbaijan Independence Party
The Universal Message Of Human Rights’ Organisation
Congress of Nationalities for a Federal Iran, International Committee
Balochistan Human Rights Organisation – London
Baloch People’s Party
American Baluch Council
Party of Lur and Bakhtiari People
Gulf-European Center for Human Rights (GECHR)
Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society (BHRWS)
Human Rights Association in National Unity Assembly (Bahrain)
Together For Human Rights and Democracy Association (Bahrain)
Peter Tatchell Foundation (UK)

Ahwaz News Agency

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