ANF, — Thousands of people from all over Kurdistan and Turkey have taken the road to the village of Roboski where 34 people, most of them children, were killed in an aerial attack of the Turkish army on 28 December 2011.
Thousands from the Kurdish region and western provinces of Turkey will be in Roboski today to mark the anniversary of the bloody massacre whose perpetrators have neither been disclosed nor taken to trial in the last one year. Families of victims have never ended seeking for justice. They are demanding the trial of perpetrators while the government is seeing as trying to cover up the massacre and protect the responsible of the massacre. They indeed refuse to give any details as to the procedure followed for the cross-border operation. The operation targeted and claimed the lives of 34 people involved in so-called “smuggling”, a definition used to distort and deny the truth lying behind the reality of the people who have been doing this work for decades. In these border regions indeed people are provided with no other work opportunities to earn their life in a very challenging and difficult environment.
Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Gültan Kışanak, Democratic Society Congress (DTK) co-chairs Ahmet Türk and Aysel Tuğluk as well as BDP deputies will also be in the village today in solidarity with thousands asking for justice for Roboski.
The young people in the village gathered at the village cemetery last night and condemned the unidentified massacre of their relatives and friends by the Turkish state. Fires were lighted in the village along the night.
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