family of 3,500 of the camp residents are pressing for an investigation judge to Spanish has convened three Iraqi officials about a RAID by security forces Iraqi in a camp of a group of Iranian exile of housing.The UN said 34 people were killed in the RAID at Camp Ashraf, in the province of Diyala, in April 2011.
Judge Fernando Andreu has summoned Gen Ali Ghaidan Majid, the head of the army and two other officers that appears.
It is investigating allegations that committed crimes against humanity during the incursion into the camp.
The research is an extension of a tube in a separate RAID that took place in the camp in July 2009, in which 11 people were killed.
Universal justice
Under the doctrine of universal justice of Spain, the serious crimes committed in other countries can be brought to justice.
Judge Andreu said that the Geneva Convention applies to the case, as it deals with the protection of civilians in time of war and all the dead and wounded in the attack were considered "protected persons" under the Convention.
According to documents released by the Court of inquiry Madrid, a total of 377 "protected persons" were injured in the attack on April 8, 2011, 154 with gunshot wounds.
More than 3,000 members of the banned opposition group, Iran (the popular PMOI) Mujahideen, has confined by the army of United States at the camp since the invasion in 2003.
The Group considered a terrorist group by the United States and Iran, gave us permission to shelter in Iraq by the former President Saddam Hussein during the war of 1980-88 between the two countries and have lived in the camp since then.
In January, the judge had said that he was going to close the file of the attack of July 2009 if the Iraqi authorities opened their own investigation.
Iraq responded by saying it had carried out its own legal research but this was not considered sufficient by the Spanish authorities.
The three Iraqi officials have been summoned to appear before the Court in Madrid on October 3, 2011.
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