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Mass burial place of Armenians and
Assyrians found in south-eastern Turkey
8.11.2006 |
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Turkey, --
Turkish police instructed residents of one of
villages located in the country's Kurdish
south-eastern vilayet (region) to keep silence
concerning mass burial place found on October 17 in
the area.
According to Kurdish Ulkede Ozgur Gundem paper
published in Turkey, the burial place may contain
remains of victims of the Armenian Genocide.
According to the periodical, digging grave for one
of their relatives, villagers of Khirabebaba struck
against burial place full of skulls and bones.
According to the source, remains of at least 40
persons lie there.
The villagers themselves are sure; remains of no
less than 300 Armenians killed in 1915 lie in the
grave. Journalists who got to the spot to receive
detailed information were stripped of access to the
burial place.
Professor of history at Sodertorn University David
Gaunt maintains that remains of 150 Armenians and
120 Assyrian men from neighboring city of Dara (now
Oguz) killed on June 14, 1915 lie in the common
grave.
Source: regnum ru
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First world war
massacres | Related
issue:
Armenian Genocide by Turkish Muslims against
Christians
Turkey faces international pressure to recognise
that more than 1 million Armenians were massacred
during a 1915 campaign of ethnic cleansing by
Ottoman Turks.
Turkish officials claim that most
deaths were caused by hunger and disease.
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