گفتگو بین خانمی بهائی و یکی از اعضاء سابق حجّتیّه در لاهه، هلند
Truth and Reconciliation: A Conversation Between a Baha'i Survivor of Human Rights Abuses and a Former Member of the Hojjatieh Association
(November 29, 2012) - In this video, filmed on October
27, 2012 in The Hague, the Netherlands, IHRDC captured a conversation of truth
and reconciliation between Ruhi Jahanpour – a Bahá’í who was imprisoned for her
beliefs in the Islamic Republic of Iran during the 1980s – and Abbas Mazaheri –
a former member of the Hojjatieh Association, which Mazaheri admits perpetrated
serious human rights abuses against Iran’s Bahá’í community. On the day of the
film, Jahanpour was in The Hague to testify at Iran Tribunal – a people’s court
set up to prosecute crimes against political prisoners and prisoners of
conscience in Iran’s prisons in the 1980s – and Mazaheri, who was moved to tears
by Jahanpour’s testimony and the memories of the abuses he and the Hojjatieh
subjected Bahá’ís to, approached Jahanpour and asked for her forgiveness. The
dialogue between Jahanpour and Mazaheri raises powerful questions of what it
means to be a victim and victimizer and what type of conversation about
responsibility and accountability is needed
for societies to heal from past
abuses. Click here to watch the conversation in
Persian language
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