Hanefi Aydýn(Berxwedan Malazgirt), one of the 12 Kurdish guerrillas who lost their life between Friday 13 and Saturday 14 in Uludere, has been buried in Hasretpýnar (Tendürek) Village of Malazgirt. Over twenty thousand people in Malazgirt/Mus were waiting for the body of the young guerrilla to give him the last salute.

Participants to the funeral included Labor, Democracy and Freedom Block candidates Sýrrý Sakýk and Demir Celik. Aydýn’s body was taken to the village, accompanied by 20 thousand people with slogans "Þehît namirin" (Martyrs do not die).

A group of soldiers was standing at the graveyard. The crowd halted the march and asked the soldiers to leave the village. Following a short talk with a delegation of the people including Sakýk and Celik, soldiers left the village.

The cortege continued accompanying the last journey of young Aydýn with slogans, banners, yellow- red,-green flags and photos of Aydýn and the four guerrillas who lost their lives with Aydýn. The crowd then observed one minute silence by Aydýn’s grave in commemoration of those who have lost their lives in the struggle for democracy and freedom.

While father Faruk Aydýn shed tears by his son’s grave, Aydýn’s mother and sisters burst into tears and one of Aydýn’s sisters felt faint during the burial.

At the same time a clash broke out between youngsters and the soldiers waiting outside who threw gas bombs on the mass and opened fire with real bullets. While the village turned into a battle field upon the people’s self-defense with stones, soldiers withdrew 6 kilometers back from the village. The mass, suspending the soldiers from the village by stones, have turned back to the village.

Translation: Berna Ozgencil