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By Işıl CİNMEN, bianet.org:
Uludere massacre, 28 December 2011
The Turkey Peace Assembly organized a meeting – ‘We are talking about Uludere’ – in order to remember the Uludere Massacre 120 days on.
Member of the Parliamentary Human Rights Sub-Commission/Republican People’s Party (CHP) Ankara deputy Levent Gök, businessman İbrahim Betil, Şırnak Bar President Nuşirevan Elçi, Mazlum-Der General Vice-President Cüneyt Sarıyaşar and the author of Radikal newspaper Ezgi Başaran were speakers. Dr. Gençay Gürsoy moderated the meeting. The meeting at Taksim Hill started with the documentary ‘Selam’ın Annesi (Mother of Selam)’.
Deputy Gök promised to complete the report regarding the massacre that killed 34 people in December 28, 2011. “I promised to those families when I was at Uludere and now I also give the same promise to you.”
“We are after four questions as a commission:
- Which unit evaluated the Heron scene?
- Who made the target detection and said that those people were ‘dangerous’ or ‘terrorist’?
- Who gave the order to shoot?
- Did they get permission for ‘the operation to carried out abroad’?”
Gök added that: “It takes just four minutes to answer these questions; they try to hide their big weakness of intelligence”.
“First they said the people who died were terrorists, then they hid (the fact) that 18 of them were just children. They tried to cover up that these people were just human beings just like us”.
Gök talked about the day he watched the scenes of bombing with the Uludere commission: “It was so clear that those people were just villagers, not dangerous people. This massacre is due to miscommunication in between agencies. Those 34 people could (have been) saved with just one phone call.”
This article was lightly edited.
