[akin at kurdish.org (AKIN)] Diyarbakir Human Rights Association Monthl

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Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 21:06:23 -0400
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Subject: Diyarbakir Human Rights Association Monthly Report

From: ihd-diyarbakir at info-ist.comlink.apc.org (Human Rights Ass. Diyarbakir)

HUMAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION DIYARBAKIR BRANCH
Report of the Human Rights Violations in March 1997

Summary of the human rights violations which our association became aware of:
3 people lost their lives in the ongoing violent clashes in the area, while
13 were injured.

7 people were badly hurt by mine explosions. In a place near the province
center of Siirt two children named H.K. (15) and H.K. (10) were also badly
hurt in an explosion of explosives they found.

In armed attacks agains civilians 5 people were killed, 11 wounded. In fire
opened by soldiers 3 people died, two of them children, one was wounded. In
armed attacks by village guards 2 people were killed, one wounded.
The number of civilians who got involved and lost their lives in clashes
was 6, 4 were wounded.

There is still no information avaliable about Ilyas Eren (43), who was
detained at the minibus terminal in Diyarbakir/Kulp by people with weapons
and wirelesses.

128 people were detained, only two of which applied to our association
because of torture. Of the 128 detainde 22 were arrested.

5 villages were raided, two villages were evacuated, one of them named
Hilaluk in the district of Eruh/Siirt, the other Ziwi (Yakitli) in Batman.
In the village of Ziyarettepe in the district of Hani, province Diyarbakir,
the corpses of  two men were found whose  identity is unknown.

Because of the ongoing problems in the prisons, the political prisoners in
the prisons of the provinces Siirt, Van and Erzurum went into collective
hunger strike with no extension defined. In the prison of Elazig the bad
problem resulting of the irregular attitude of the prison direction.

As everywhere in Turkey in our region also the severe human rights
violation contiued in March.

We call for social peace and the respect for human rights in Turkey and in
our region.

DIYARBAKIR BRANCH MARCH BALANCE SHEET

                                events          dead            wounded

In clashes                                      3               13
Mines                                                           7
Attacks against civilians                       5               11
Civilian victims in clashes                     6               4
Disappeared                     1
Detained                        128
Torture                         2
Raided villages                 5
Evacuated villages              2
Unidentified corpses            2
Prisons                         1
Arrests                         22
TOTAL                           163             14              35

IHD Diyarbakir Branch
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