Details of the explosion in Dürümlü field in Amed’s Sur district on May 12 are coming to light. HPG announced that the truck loaded with explosives was in transit from one position to the other and the explosion was the result of people from the village opening fire on it.

Following the explosion, state officials and naturally the special war media started searching for ways to exploit the situation. They want to highlight this explosion and to mask the ongoing atrocities and the war in Kurdistan. It seems that they will manipulate this case more in the coming days and aim not to shine light on the matter but to use it for their own ends.

Several NGOs, and the HDP as well, have issued criticisms on HPG. HPG had already answered them in their own declaration and offered their condolences for the families.

After this unfortunate event, AKP-led publications and analyses show that the incident was in fact not a coincidence, and that plans were made to cause such an incident. Incidentally, mere minutes after the explosion, some “security officials” had spoken to Reuters and announced that “4 members of the PKK were dead”. How did these “security officials” know that there were 4 PKK members there in the minutes when nobody knew what was happening? It later turned out that it was 4 villagers, not PKK members, that had died. According to the villagers, a person from the village was constantly in touch with the outpost commander and was giving him information. The outpost commander is told that the truck belongs to the PKK, and the commander insists on catching the 4 people in the truck, dead or alive. Then the contact riles up the villagers as such. But, it is possible that not all villagers knew the truck belonged to the guerilla, because there are such analyses in the following statements. Only the person (or persons) in contact with the outpost knows about the situation.

The succession of events and the villagers’ statements to the press show that the state’s game is to have the villagers catch the guerillas in the truck dead or alive, and conducting a PR and perception operation over it. After the villagers start chasing the truck and the persons in the truck get away, the chance to catch them alive diminishes and the truck is fired upon, which results in the unfortunate death of several people.

AKP and the blood gang, the death-loving pool media around it that call every Kurdish person killed by the “special operations” bunch of murderers a “terrorist”, from the 2-month old baby to the 70-year old grandfather, jumped on this unfortunate incident and turned it into a reason to attack the Kurdish movement. Ministers with bloody hands issuing death warrants every day attended the funerals in the village, where some villagers did put them in their place.

They are trying to evoke an association between this incident and Roboski. But, everybody knows that the 34 Roboski villagers were bombed by fighter jets for an hour on the AKP’s orders. Even though it was known that they were villagers, as the information later revealed showed. In this instance, it is again the AKP’s security forces that threaten the villagers or promise them rewards and send them to their death. Even the President declared that the villagers were not the target. The HPG didn’t explode the truck in the village, the villagers opened fire on the truck after it left the village and that resulted in the explosion. The AKP and their murder-loving sycophants should know that the “best” they can get out of this situation is a second Roboski that the AKP has caused.

Maybe other details will surface in the future on what led to this incident. But these questions show us a rough estimate on what the situation is:

1- Who is the person that called the outpost and ordered the villagers to cut off the guerilla, even though the people in the truck said they were lost and had nothing to do with the villagers, as also accepted by the villagers themselves?

2- Who is the outpost official that ordered the villagers to catch the people in the truck, dead or alive? Why don’t they release the recordings of the talk with the villagers?

3- Who are the “security and interior affairs” sources that knew there were 4 guerillas in the truck before the explosion and gave statements to Reuters and the MİT-led El Cezire Türkçe immediately after the explosion and said the 4 guerillas in the truck were dead?

4- On the night of the explosion, all of the pool media immediately reported that it was the 4 guerillas loading the truck with explosives who died. Why don’t they reveal who the source is for the “4 dead guerillas” stories they reported the following morning?

5- What was promised to the villagers to catch the guerillas dead or alive? What were they threatened with in case they let them pass?

6- There is no reason for the guerilla to target villages. And by the villagers accounts, they were trying to get away. Why is there no mention of the “security forces” that released the villagers on the guerillas and paved the way to the explosion?