Speaker: Statement of Ahwazi Source Foundation. An independent, non-profit human rights
and environmental organization. Registered in the United Kingdom. Mr. Chairperson. The
human rights situation in Ahwaz is [inaudible] catastrophic, that it is hard to be covered in 2
minutes. What have happened in [inaudible] since 1925, is a subject close to an ethnic
cleansing. Therefore, we ask the United Nations to take an immediate action and to send a
special rapporteur to Ahwaz to investigate the situation there. Today, I am going to share
with you the land confiscation as the Iranien mean of implementation, implemented by the
Iranian regime with the policy to change the demographics in Ahwaz. During the last two
weeks, the armed forces of the IRJC attacked the [inaudible] villages in [inaudible] in the city
of [inaudible, and confiscated land of the Ahwazi farmer. For the settling of the immigrant, of
the neighboring province of Lorrestan. Iran has caught the water from these villages in order
to force the villages, Ahwazi farmers to leave their land.