INTERNATIONAL WEEK AGAINST DISAPPEARANCES
İHD: 348 Mass Graves 4.201 Bodies Found
Human Rights Association (İHD) and family members of forcibly disappeared people have been organizing demonstration within the scope of international week against the disappearances and for the offenders to be judged.
The bones of 4.201 people have been found in 348 mass graves according to İHD Map of Mass Graves.
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İHD's statement: “Turkey must face the past (forced migration, tortures, crimes against humanity, genocide, violations of law of war, unidentified murders, extrajudicial executions). *Should make law. Create a truth and reconciliation commission equipped with broad authority. *Turkey should be a part of United Nations' International Contract of Protecting People without Enforced Disappearance. *Turkey must ban enforced disappearanace and recognize it as a crime against humanity. It must be guaranteed for the case not to be prescribed. *Turkey should open the mass graves with the coopariton of human rights and other related non-governmental organizations and the procedure should continue according to Jordan's Principle. *DNA banks must be created. *Prosecutors should make a move officialy and identify the offenders among the security and military police units. * In order not to allow the repetition of the same incidents, "internal security act" must be abolished. * Judicial policemen units should be created and linked to public prosecution office. * Impunity policy must be abandoned for public officers. |
İHD Diyarbakır Branch will stage a sit-in today for lost people to be found and justice to be secured. protest will be held at 19 p.m. in Diyarbakır province. (AS/BD)
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