Iraq: Investigate deadly violence at Camp Ashraf

Friday 8 April 2011 Clashes between Iraqi security forces and residents in Camp Ashraf resulted in multiple deaths and injuries. The Iraqi authorities must immediately launch an independent investigation into reports that Iraqi troops killed and injured residents of a camp for Iranian exiles north of Baghdad in an unprovoked attack, Amnesty International said today. “Iraqi troops moved into the camp this morning and used excessive force against residents who tried to resist them, according to the information we have received,” said Malcolm Smart, Director of Amnesty International’s Middle…

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