At least 33,000 people have been killed by security forces in Iran in recent days in violence on a scale that is "unprecedented", according to a former UN prosecutor and human rights lawyer.
Payam Akhavan described "accounts of black body bags piling up in morgues and refrigerator trucks dumping bodies in mass graves" and says "Iranians today are deeply traumatised."
He told Sky’s Yalda Hakim "the rate of killing in Iran is four times worse than Srebrenica," one of the worst atrocities from the Yugoslav war, which he previously worked on as a UN prosecutor.
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