Nowadays, spring comes and snow melts in the eastern side of Turkey. This is a natural change supposed to make everyone happy and joyful instead of leaving people in pain. Kurds living in Hizan and Mutki, provinces of Bitlis, have a big problem now because the melting snows actually uncovered the mass graves and the human remains it concealed.

Bitlis was known to have many mass graves which have never been investigated despite many information and complaints of locals. And now, these graves and remains doubtlessly made themselves visible.

Mutki and Hizan residents exposed local governors but after the denounce the authorities ordered the re-covering of these graves with construction machines rather than opening investigations on the allegations of mass graves.

According to local allegations, 28 PKK members were buried Hizan’s public dumping ground. Now the province’s local authority started to work on a new road and began to cover the bones and skulls which can be seen all around the garbage dump.

The company carried out works on four separate spots where mass graves where PKK members are said to have been buried lie.

Besides this worrisome ‘coincidence’ in Hizan, the local authorities of Mutki started construction work and filled the entire area where four alleged mass graves are said to lie with debris.

Human Rights Association (ÝHD) Bitlis Representative Hasan Ceylan, who applied to the Hizan Public Prosecutor to open an investigation over these mass graves, called on the authorities to take the allegations seriously and launch an investigation before the evidences were disappeared by the local government.