Two more mass graves were found in Bitlis, a Kurdish city where it’s believed to contain more than 300 mass graves of the Kurdish guerrilla of the PKK and the civilian Kurds.
The two newly discovered mass graves contained 12 bodies, including three civilians. The mass graves are located in two different areas, at kilometers 20 and 25 of the Bitlis River.
According to the testimony of an anonymous witness, who was a village guard at the time the mass grave was excavated three civilians wearing suits were left in a pit dug by soldiers’ panzers in 1994. The witness along with others covered the bodies after soldiers left the scene.
The Human Rights Association (IHD) Bitlis Representative Hasan Ceylan stated that according to their investigation, these civilians were political prisoners brought from Mush Prison and executed on the very spot of the mass grave.
Soldiers opened the other mass grave said to contain the remains of nine Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) members who were killed in 1992 or 1993 following an ambush.
Ceylan said that the IHD applied to the prosecutor to investigate these two newly discovered mass graves.
source: http://www.rojhelat.info/english/component/content/article/1599-two-more-mass-graves-found-in-bitlis
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