BETLIS, — Another mass grave containing the bodies of 12 Kurdish guerrillas was discovered in Tetewani, a district of Betlis in North Kurdistan.
According to the reports, on 1999 the Turkish Military Forces set an ambush for a unit of Kurdish guerrillas on the village of Karkan located in the district of Tetewani.
Clashes began to erupt as the guerrillas find themselves in the trap. But none of them survived and they all got killed in the ambush.
Turkish forces piled the corpses of the guerrillas on one place keeping them for 2 weeks. The eye witnesses including Mr Hashim and Oxur revealed that because the guerrilla corpses were held on the ground for such a long time, wolves tore the bodies into pieces.
“Me and my brother Hashim, went to the village to collect woods, something like a bench on the meadow attracted our attention, we shouted what is going on there; some body replied there are bodies of PKK guerrillas over there. Once we rushed there, we noticed the remaining bones of the guerrillas were there. A day later me and my brother hid the remaining bones under a walnut tree”, said Bedri Oxur.
Despite the fact that the mass graves are discovered on a daily basis, the Commission for Investigation of these crimes are not established and no efforts have been made to excavate numerous mass graves to bring to light a snapshot of the Turkish crimes in Kurdistan.