The families of 34 people from Roboski, a village in Şırnak province, who were killed by Turkish warplanes on December 28, 2011 continue their struggle for justice.

'I WAS CHARGED FOR GOING TO MY SON'S GRAVE'

Heybet Encü, who lost his son Mohammed in the massacre, says she will not forget her son's pain as long as she is alive. Mother Encü said that life has no meaning for them after the death of her son:

"We do not feel anything as feasts and weddings that take place in the village. We go with tears even to entertaining events. We have not experienced anything but grief and pain since our children were slaughtered. But it was not like this before the massacre; we minded our own business; we were continuing our lives in a happy state. No peace has been left after the massacre. Anyway, there is no engagement as before. People are afraid. The pressure of the state and the lawsuits frightened them. Investigations have been opened many times against me because I went to the grave of my murdered son with a photo of him in my hand.”

'WE CONTINUE TO RESIST'

Azime Alma, the mother of murdered Nadir, said:

"Today, all Kurds who have honour and dignity are thrown into prisons. For example, what crime did Leyla Güven commit? We are all in a prison like her. Our world has darkened since our children were slaughtered. I had 6 children, each of them moved to different places after the massacre. Nobody in the village feels happy anymore. We cannot even feel ourselves belonging here after our children were murdered. But we still resist. We live somehow, but we do not understand how we are living. We will always follow in the footsteps of our children and we will never forget them.”

Leyla Encü, mother of murdered Şirvan Encü, spoke as follows:

"We make visits to the cemetery every Thursday. Each time we experience that pain again. In these 9 years, no perpetrator was caught or sentenced by courts. This situation makes us angrier. Our life was just fine before the massacre. We knew how to hold on to life somehow. But after the massacre, everything was cut like a knife. We do not even have a desire to move at all. Because what we are experiencing is not an easy thing. At least we have the right to know who the perpetrators are.”