Urmiah, Bagh-e Rezvan Cemetery

Bagh-e Rezvan is the public cemetery of Urmia. In the early autumn of 1988, rumours circulated among the political activists of Urmia that some of the political prisoners executed in the 1988 massacre had been buried in the vicinity of this cemetery. Upon visiting the cemetery, they witnessed freshly disturbed dirt and a number of large mounds. Their observations convinced them that the executed prisoners were buried there in a mass grave.