HPG Members Netice Katar and Bünyamin Öncü’s bodies were retrieved by their families after having lost their lives in clashes and being buried in the cemetery for the nameless without notice.
HPG members Netice Katar and Bünyamin Öncü who lost their lives in the clashes in Lice, Amed on March 7 had been buried in the cemetery for the nameless in Yeniköy, Bağlar without their families being informed. As a result of the families appealing for a DNA test identification, the families exhumed the graves with permission from the prosecutor. The families and locals took the remains to a different section in the same cemetery.
“I WILL NEVER CRY!”
As HPG member Netice Katar was being buried, her mother Rınde Katar raised a bowl full of henna and sang. Katar sang the traditional zilgit and put henna on the attendees’ hands. She said she will never cry as she performed this ritualistic tradition and added: “Today is my daughter’s wedding day.”
Netice Katar was born in 1990 in the Kulp district, and joined the PKK in 2008. Bünyamin Öncü was born in the Çınar district and joined the PKK last year in March. The two were buried as people prayed.
The police surrounded the cemetery during the burial ceremony.
