The Justice for Roboskî Initiative met on the 151st month after the massacre of 34 people, 19 of them children, in Roboskî village in Uludere district of Şırrnak province on 28 December 2011 as a result of a bombardment by Turkish warplanes.

The initiative made a press statement in front of the Human Rights Association (IHD) Ankara Branch behind a banner reading “Let the killers be found. Roboskî, never again”.

Emphasising that the perpetrators of the massacre 13 years ago went missing in the depths of Ankara, İHD member Tanju Gündüzalp said: “There has been no law for 151 months, impunity by the system has been continuing for 657 weeks and we have been seeking justice for 4,596 days. In the 5 thousand days since the massacre of 34 civilians, including 19 children, in Roboski, we continue to seek justice together, faced with injustice, lawlessness and impunity at the hands of the rulers, the Parliament, the judiciary, the Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights. Roboski is a massacre in the state lesson. On the border drawn by politicians separating peoples from each other, the right to life of young people who lived on simple trade with their relatives that had been forced to leave their own land in the 80s and 90s with the evacuation of villages was unscrupulously taken away. Opposing borders, wars, hunger and co-existence in peace means justice for Roboskî. Roboski is the symbol of both war and peace. Those who created injustice and impunity will never be forgotten in the dirty pages of human history."

Remarking that justice will not come to Turkey without justice for Roboskî, Gündüzalp said: "All of us will use our right of objection ceaselessly against war and violence, which eliminate human life and freedoms. We are on the side of seeking justice and living together in peace. Until the day we achieve justice for Roboskî and all massacres against state and government violence, we will continue to remember the Roboskî Massacre on the 28th day of every month with everyone who asks the question ‘What can I do as a human being?’. Roboskî is the test of the state and the government, the shame of this land, the bleeding wound and the search for justice. The path to peace and justice in these lands will surely pass through Roboskî first and foremost. It is vital that those responsible are exposed, tried and sentenced accordingly. We have not forgotten and we will not forget it, nor will let it be forgotten."