New excavation tries to solve mass murders

ŞIRNAK - Doğan News Agency

The excavation began in the gendarmerie command area in the district of Silopi in the southeastern province of Şırnak to investigate the claims of an ex-soldier. AA Photo

The excavation began in the gendarmerie command area in the district of Silopi in the southeastern province of Şırnak to investigate the claims of an ex-soldier.

A new excavation began in the gendarmerie command area in the district of Silopi in the southeastern province of Şırnak to investigate the claims of an ex-soldier about “six murdered villagers” in 1993.
The Diyarbakır Specially Authorized Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation yesterday after the notice by an ex-soldier who served in the Army in May 1993 with the gendarmerie of the town of Görümlü in Silopi.

The soldier, whose name has been kept anonymous, also drew a sketch of the area that is alleged to be the location of six buried people.

The soldier told the prosecutor’s office that six villagers were taken under custody in the gendarmerie after a clash between the Turkish Army and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on May 13, 1993. A lawyer from the bar association of Şırnak and officials from the city’s Institution of Forensic Medicine also attended the excavation work yesterday.

Meanwhile, the numbers of the skulls found in Diyarbakır rose to 15, according to the reports based upon the statements of Raci Bilici, head of the Human Rights Association (İHD) Diyarbakır Branch.