Members of the Social Memory Platform will join the "Vigil for Justice" in Roboski on the 71st week of the massacre. 34 Kurdish people were killed by Turkish warplanes on 28 December 2011.

Platform members will be standing by the families of the Roboski victims as, they said, "we share the same pain" and will show solidarity with the families in voicing their demand for justice.

Speaking about the vigil, Zeynep Altıok, who lost her father, poet Metin Altıok, in the Sivas Massacre in 1993, said that "The reason we all are gathering in Roboski is the fact that we see the Roboski massacre as the latest of a long series of incidents in which people lost their families and relatives".  

Remarking that Turkey has witnessed countless political killings that have remained unsolved since the murder of writer Sebahattin Ali in 1948, Altıok said that "None of these murders have been solved. Only the gunmen involved in some of the killings have been determined. The murder of Hrant Dink [Armenian journalist who was killed on 19 January 2007] and Roboski massacre are the most recent examples of these murders in Turkey".

Altıok added that "What we have witnessed and experienced so far is the fact that that time wipes out everything, the non reaction leaves many things in darkness and that the lapse of time covers up incidents as years pass by, just like it happened in the Sivas Massacre. This is why we do not want the Roboski massacre to be forgotten and why we demand the disclosure of truth and punishment for those responsible. Our aim is to raise a one single voice against all kinds of injustices”.

Reminding of the Uludere Report by the Parliamentary Sub Commission, Altıok said "the report aimed to cover up the truth on the massacre just like it had happened in previous killing and massacres that still remain unsolved.  We are going to Roboski to demand justice for victims and to share the pain of the families who have been staging a vigil for justice since the massacre", she added.

Meryem Göktepe, sister of Kurdish journalist Metin Göktepe who was tortured to death, will also be in Roboski tomorrow in solidarity with the families of the victims. Göktepe said they shared the same pain and demanded justice like Roboski families who -she underlined- felt alone and forgotten.