Ανακάλυψη μαζικού τάφου στην Τουρκία

Kurdish Info 06.01.2011 - The bones of at least 12 people, mostly civilians, were discovered in a mass grave in Kurdistan, during an investigation into the fate of Kurds missing since the 1990s. More than 30 mass graves have been discovered so far, according to human rights organizations. Nine young people had left their families in 1999 to join the ranks of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the region of Bitlis, but these young unarmed people, killed by the Turkish army, were found 10 years later in a garbage dump, an atrocity denied by the authorities so far.
But during an investigation, seized by families of missing persons, missing 36 fighters of the PKK, the prosecutor Mutka, a town of Bitlis province, populated by Kurds, ordered Wednesday, January 5, the launching of a search into a wasteland used as A landfill at the exit of the village.

The bodies of twelve persons, including nine youths and three unarmed guerrillas of the PKK, have been exhumed in the first area where excavations were carried out, according to the Association of Human Rights (IHD). "The bones were safe," said his side the chairman of the Bar of Bitlis, Enis Gül, who was present at the scene as an observer.

"For the time excavations were made on a single area. We have made appeals to various places. But it is not known yet whether there will be new excavations," said Serdar Celebi, the lawyer member of IHD. The delegation of the IHD at the scene described the discovery of this common grave of "extrajudicial executions".

POLICY OF THE STATE
Similar excavations have led to the exhumation in 2009 of human bones and clothing in the province of Sirnak Kurdish city. They led to the opening in September of the trial of seven defendants, including a police colonel, accused of involvement in summary executions of 20 people in the 1990s. Several complaints were filed by families of the disappeared and the Association of Human Rights, against former Turkish leaders, including former Turkish President Suleyman Demirel, former Prime Minister Tansu CILER, following a confession of Atilla Kiyat, retired Vice Admiral. "The unsolved political killings (Faili meçhul Turkish) were a state policy between years 93 and 97," he said.

OVER 30 MASS GRAVES
At least 31 mass graves have been discovered by human rights organizations and the inhabitants of the Kurdish region with the help of the PKK. The inhabitants have discovered two mass graves in September 2010 in Diyarbakir, capital of the Kurdish region, where clothing and bones of PKK members had been found. According to eyewitnesses, the bodies were burned and abandoned by the army after heavy fighting between 1993 and 1998 near Zera, a village in the region of Diyarbakir. But justice has not yet been achieved for the dead.

TESTIMONY ON ATROCITIES
Eleven other bodies, all members of the PKK, have been exhumed on June 9, 2010 in a village in Gercus, a city of the province of Batman. They were killed in 1995 during a confrontation with the Turkish army. "The Turkish army attacked the fifteen guerrillas with thousands of soldiers backed by tanks, fighter planes and helicopters. The battle lasted for several hours early, four guerrillas were killed. They were dragged, and then run over by tanks. Cobra helicopters were dispatched from the city of Sirnak, and eleven guerrillas were killed after 11 hours of combat," said Numan Amed, a witness, fighting the PKK. His testimony had led to the discovery of mass graves and identification of the bodies. But in total fifteen Kurdish guerrillas were killed and were buried in three different places, according to Meda. "Sari Selim, a guerrilla commander of the region Mardin, also lost his life during this confrontation. His head was cut off by a soldier and his headless body was dragged along the ground attached behind a military vehicle in the villages Silebin, Midelbe and Baminire of Gercus "continued the witness.

BUTCHER’S CREEK
Turkey knew mass graves in 1989, a Kurdish journalist has revealed. Kasaplar Deresi (Butcher's Creek), a place of discharge from the army in the province of Siirt, was the first mass grave discovered in which nine people were exhumed by the authorities, but the names of at least 73 others buried in this mass grave came to light. The guerrillas killed in clashes or people abducted by the security forces have been thrown with their clothes on Kasaplar Deresi, sometimes from garbage vehicles, witnesses said. More than 100 bodies found in this mass grave were exhumed over the last 20 years.http://www.kurdish-info.eu/