Thousands joined funeral of guerrilla killed by police
Thousands joined funeral of guerrilla killed by police
Thousand of people turned out at the funeral of Mekin Kar (Xebat Rodî) in Diyarbakýr today. Kar was executed by police on the first day of 2012 together with another friend.
The two boys who were PKK guerrillas were killed by police in the city on 1 January. The police gave a completely different version as to the two men died, saying that they had thrown themselves from the balcony of the third-floor flat they were staying when, wounded, saw no other escape way.
But eyewitnesses said the police version was a lie. Indeed they said the two men were killed in the street at point blank.
Speaking at the funeral the brother of Mekin, Nesip Kar said his brother was a "martyr of Kurdistan not just of his family".
The president of MEYA-DER (Association of Mesopotamian families of disappeared people) Hüseyin Kuðu also spoke. "They want to silence people - he said - while executing them. But the Kurdish people will not give up its fight for rights and justice".
The two boys who were PKK guerrillas were killed by police in the city on 1 January. The police gave a completely different version as to the two men died, saying that they had thrown themselves from the balcony of the third-floor flat they were staying when, wounded, saw no other escape way.
But eyewitnesses said the police version was a lie. Indeed they said the two men were killed in the street at point blank.
Speaking at the funeral the brother of Mekin, Nesip Kar said his brother was a "martyr of Kurdistan not just of his family".
The president of MEYA-DER (Association of Mesopotamian families of disappeared people) Hüseyin Kuðu also spoke. "They want to silence people - he said - while executing them. But the Kurdish people will not give up its fight for rights and justice".
