"Well covered-up
Published on: Wednesday 30 Sep 2009, 10:25 by Fréderike Geerdink in Hoofdartikel
Published in: Amnesty's monthly Wordt Vervolgd
The fight between Kurdish seperatist movement PKK and the Turkish army was at its dirtiest in the nineteen-nineties. Hundreds of (alleged) PKK sympathisers were killed or disappeared without a trace. Who was responsible? It was thought “Jitem”, a secret anti-terrorism unit of the military police. The bodies were dumped in wells, fields and rivers. Now that Turkey is democratizing, the search for the bodies has begun."
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