VAN, -- A new mass grave was found in which 28 bodies of Kurdish guerrillas of PKK were thrown in. The evidences claim that their bodies were burnt and then dumped in the mass grave.
28 PKK members, who lost their lives in a clash in 1998 in Badilgali Upland located 30 kilometres away from Gorandesht village of Chitak district of Van, were dumped into a mass grave.
IHD, Van Bar Association and MEYA-DER members and families of 13 PKK members, coming from Batman, Mardin, Amid, Kars Igdır, Sirnak and Cizre at early morning hours, went to the mass grave.
While mothers left their children’s photographs on the grave, their looking for their children’s bones under stones wounded the feelings of all the people there.
Mothers pointed out that their children were killed in an inhumane way and demanded an end to the bloodshed.
According to eye-witnesses' claims, a wide-scaled operation was launched by the Turkish army upon the appearance of guerrillas in the region.
14 of the village guards, who were sent to the region as a Battalion as a part of the operation, were taken hostage by the PKK members, who announced Turkish soldiers that the hostages would be released if the army let them to pass the region.
Despite the announcement, Cobra helicopters soon after raked the people in the region, killing 28 PKK members and 14 village guards in the clash.
It is claimed that 28 PKK members were burnt, while the bodies of 14 village guards were taken by soldiers who came to the region soon after the clash.
The burnt bodies of guerrillas were afterwards found and buried in mass in a big hole dug by the villagers living in the region.
source: http://www.rojhelat.info/english/component/content/article/1491-bodies-of-28-kurdish-guerrillas-found-in-mass-grave
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