Iran Acknowledges Massacre of Political Prisoners

“It is not easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.”
Victor Hugo - Les Miserables
For three decades Iran lied about the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in summer of 1988, and kept silent about this atrocity. But in this year’s presidential election as 

conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisie, one of the perpetrators of the massacre, was selected as one of the main candidates, the issue surfaced, forcing regime officials, one after another, to confess about the carnage.
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