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Kurds criticize Turkish government's silence on mass graves

Thursday, February 3, 2011


BDP members and various nongovernmental organizations march near the eastern city of Bitlis' Mutki district. AA photo

Thousands of people marched Wednesday in eastern Turkey to protest what they described as the government’s silence on mass graves uncovered in the area last month.

Hundreds of vehicles were used to transport people from the surrounding provinces of Van, Diyarbakır, Muş, Batman and Siirt to Bitlis’ Mutki district to participate in the march, which was organized by the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party, or BDP, and various nongovernmental organizations.

The crowd, numbering in the thousands, gathered in Bitlis and then moved on to Mutki, where 12 skeletons were uncovered Jan. 5, and eight more found Jan. 20, all near a dump site used by the local gendarmerie station.

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