On August 14, 1993, 17 people, including children and elderly, lost their lives and more than 200 were injured in the Digor district of Kars province when Turkish soldiers opened fire on civilians who were set to stage a protest march against the imposition of the ‘village guard’ system, house raids and torture.

On the 29th anniversary of the massacre, former deputy and writer Mahmut Alinak announced the opening of an open-air museum at the scene of the mass slaughter: “This museum will be a sacred site where we will remember the dead on its anniversary every year. History doesn’t forget. Nor do we.”

Alınak went to the scene on Monday to water the trees they had planted in the open-air museum, to see the trees uprooted. Publishing images on the social media, Alınak condemned the perpetrators whom he vowed to bring to account. "Racist savages do not tolerate our grief even," he wrote.