UN officials strongly condemned attack on Camp Liberty, an Iranian exile camp in Iraq, and called on the Government to assist and protect camp residents in need. According to media reports two people were killed and dozens injured in a mortar attack to the camp, which is located near western Baghdad. The Secretary-General's Special Representative for Iraq, Martin Kobler and the country representative for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Claire Bourgeois, said they are “deeply concerned that today's tragic violence has occurred despite their repeated requests to the Government of Iraq to provide Camp Liberty and its residents with protective measures, including T-Walls.”

United Nations News Centre - UN officials strongly condemn attack on Iranian exile camp in Iraq: "More than 3,000 residents, most of them members of a group known as the People's Mojahedeen of Iran, are temporarily housed in Camp Liberty – a transit facility also know as Camp Hurriya – while UNHCR carries out a process to determine their refugee status." CLICK LINK TO READ MORE

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