Ferhat Encu lost his brother and 11 other relatives in the Roboski massacre. On the night of 28 December 2011, Turkish warplanes bombed the cross border area near the village of Roboski killing 34 mostly young men who were on their way across the fictitious "border" with South Kurdistan. They were "border trading", the sole economic activity of the area.

"The reality is - said Encu, on the second anniversary of the massacre - since the very first day of the massacre, the more we demanded justice from the government, the more insults and pressures we have been subjected to. The relatives of victims were threatened to remain silent when they spoke to the media".

Encü recalls that "our village was almost turned to an open prison as the relatives of the victims were detained, arrested, subjected to warrants of arrest, denied permission to leave the village and even to take ill people to hospitals in the district. People still fear of being taken into custody as the detained relatives of victims are accused of "intending to kill". I myself was taken into custody six times: why ? Because of the fact that I didn't allow the massacre to be taken off the agenda. Furthermore, I was directly threatened by Şırnak Gendarmerie Regiment Commander Osman Aslan who said before cameras that "Ferhat, your time will come too as I know very well that you are acting under the command of some others". We do not know if that commander received thanks for his words or not but it is obvious that he hasn't been subjected to any investigation".

Since the very first day of the massacre, insists Encu "the more we demanded justice from the government, the more insults and pressures we have been subjected to. The relatives of victims were threatened to remain silent when they spoke to the media, while the villagers who brought an action against the massacre were asked nothing about the incident, they were rather directed questions such as why they received condolences in mass, why they covered coffins with flags and why the BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) protected them".

Not long after the massacre and the ending of the mourning, fabricated news spread around claiming that the government had awarded the families of Roboski with "record compensation". Ferhat Encu says: "We have never used the money they gave us. The Interior Minister described victims as "work beasts" and "figurants of the terror organization", while the Prime Minister implied that the victims had a map of mines in the region, defending that they had never stepped on mines. He was telling a lie looking straight in the eye of the whole Turkey because of the fact that numerous people lost their life or became permanently disabled because of mines. This must be another shame for the Prime Minister".

Survivor Servet Encü and his family left Turkey and moved to Iraqi Kurdistan as the increasing pressure on families first weakened and then finished his hope for justice. "It must be a great shame for state authorities - says Encu - to see a citizen so deluded and scared to decide to abandon the lands where he was born and grew up. However, it was not".

Despite the repression, the continuous injustice we have to face "we never gave up - says Ferhat Encu - and we continued to voice our demand for justice everywhere. We again and again applied to countless authorities for the disclosure and trial of perpetrators. We also visited the Turkish Parliament twice and met the representatives of parties in the parliament. However, during our both visits, we were subjected to insults by the governing AKP (Justice and Development Party) Group deputy chair Ayşenur Bahçekapılı and another Group deputy chair Mahir Ünal. When I asked Ünal which concrete steps they had taken after the massacre, he answered that they gave scholarship to 40 students from Roboski, including myself. However, we had neither voiced such a demand nor known about the scholarship given to us. As families who refused to touch compensation they gave, we found it interesting that they thought we would grovel for 100 TL scholarship (5o euro)".