Civillians killed in genocidal attacks by Turkish forces were buried in Yafes Neighborhood without being returned to their families. 21 bodies, 12 of them unidentified, were buried in a plot belonging to the municipality. The burial decision was made by the Ministry of Interior Affairs with an emergency mandate.

Details from the massacre against the people carried out during the 80 day curfew in Cizre are coming to light. While 12 of the bodies, which included a baby killed in its mother’s womb, remain unidentified, 21 bodies were buried in a plot that belongs to the municipality under orders from the Ministry of Interior Affairs.

Workers in Cizre Municipality Cemeteries Department said they buried the unidentified bodies under orders from the Cizre District Governor while the curfew was still in place, under tank and artillery fire. Their statement is as follows:

“We, as 3 municipality workers, under orders from the District Governor, took the bodies from the hospital and buried them one by one in the plot in Yafes Neighborhood which has come to be a cemetery for the nameless. 12 of the bodies don’t even have names, for the other 9 we had their names written on the stones and buried them. Among these unnamed bodies there is a child killed in the womb. We went through the hardest days of our lives, people were being killed, and their families could not even visit their graves. We could have died as well, but the Ministry of Interior Affairs had issued an emergency mandate to have those bodies removed from the hospital morgue. May Allah punish them for the woes of our people. They did unimaginable cruelty to us, to this people. People of Cizre will never forget this cruelty as long as they live. What else is there to say?”

While the dozens of bodies, burned to death in Cizre’s basements of atrocity are being kept in morgues of different hospitals, the municipality cemetery workers prepare new graves. The wait of the families continues at morgue doors while people worry that the nameless graves will increase.