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NOVEMBER 9, 2006
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Mass burial place of Armenians and Assyrians found in south-eastern Turkey
Turkish police instructed residents of one of villages located in the
country’s 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.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
