Thirty one new mass graves listed by MEYA-DER
Thirty one new mass graves listed by MEYA-DER
The Yüksekova Branch of MEYA-DER has located thirty-one mass graves in which 390 corpses have been buried in Hakkari and its districts.
MEYA-DER Yüksekova representative Ömer Çakýr called on the state authorities to excavate these graves and allow identification of the bodies in order to deliver the to their relatives.
“All kinds of rules were being violated in the region. - he said - Security forces in this area worked almost like a death machine. They chose to kill people instead of saving them. Then dumped them together without any records. No one deserves to be treated like that.”
Çakýr also called on everyone, who suspects that their sons or daughters are buried in these mass graves to apply to the association.
He also presented the list of the alleged mass graves and their locations.
MEYA-DER Yüksekova representative Ömer Çakýr called on the state authorities to excavate these graves and allow identification of the bodies in order to deliver the to their relatives.
“All kinds of rules were being violated in the region. - he said - Security forces in this area worked almost like a death machine. They chose to kill people instead of saving them. Then dumped them together without any records. No one deserves to be treated like that.”
Çakýr also called on everyone, who suspects that their sons or daughters are buried in these mass graves to apply to the association.
He also presented the list of the alleged mass graves and their locations.
