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    Found by Villagers;Covered up by the Military

    Turkish gendarmerie has instructed local villagers of a southeastern region to keep silence about a recently discovered mass burial site that might contain skeletons of massacred Armenians.

    The mass burial, believed to be from the Armenian Genocide, was discovered in southeastern Turkey 's Mardin region on October 17, 2006.
    According to Ülkede Özgür Gündem , a Kurdish newspaper published in Turkish, villagers from Xirabebaba (Kuru) were digging a grave for one of their relatives when they came across to a cave full of skulls and bones of reportedly 40 people.

    The Xirabebaba residents assumed they had uncovered a mass grave of 300 Armenian villagers massacred during the Genocide of 1915. They info rmed Akarsu Gendarmerie headquarters, the local military unit, about the discovered cave. Turkish army officers, according to Ülkede Özgür Gündem, instructed the villagers to blockade the cave entrance and make no mention about the skeletons. The officers said an investigation would take place.
    Ülkede Özgür Gündem reported on the developments and the Turkish military's attempt to hide the news. In an October 22, 2006 article, titled "Found by Villagers; Covered up by the Military," the newspaper wrote that soldiers from Akarsu gendarmerie headquarters came to the site, covered the cave entrance and took photographs. Journalists, who had arrived to obtain more info rmation, were denied access to the cave.

    Although there had been prior instances of finding mass burial sites believed to be from the Armenian Genocide, this was the first incident when such a discovery was reported by a daily newspaper in Turkey .

    As the mass burial made news, local gendarmerie made another visit to the villagers. The latter were pressed to report the name of the person who leaked the mass burial discovery to the press. The officers told the villagers that the news reported by Roj TV, an international Kurdish satellite television, and Ülkede Özgür Gündem were "all lies." The villagers were warned not to show the way to the cave to anybody.

    The victims of the mass grave, according to Södertörn University History Professor David Gaunt, are most likely the 150 Armenian and 120 Syriac males, heads of their families, from the nearby town of Dara (now Oguz) killed on June 14, 1915.

    The Armenian and Syriac residents were marched out of the town, and only one person was known to have escaped to tell of what had happened, Prof.
    Gaunt says. According to the Syriac survivor, his marching neighbors were murdered and their bodies were placed in a well. "The mass burial in this cave suggests that the two groups could have been killed in separate places, and that the Armenians were put into this cave, while the Syriacs were put in a well," Prof. Gaunt, whose "Massacres, Resistance, Protectors:
    Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I" book comes out November, 2006, concludes.

    The Turkish government officially denies the genocide of over a million Armenians, accomp ani ed with massacres of thousands of Syriacs and other minorities, which took place in what is now eastern Turkey during WWI.

    Photographs by Ülkede Özgür Gündem. Republished by permission.

    Ayse Gunaysu, Istanbul

    A draft of this report has been initially published at www.blogian.hayastan.com

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    Re: Found By Villagers; Covered Up By The Military

    That's an interesting article Criss jan. I wonder how many such mass graves were found decades ago and covered up never to be seen again.

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      Yes I know, got it through an email from a friend this morning, thought I'd post it up for all to read.

      I guess it's hard to shut ppl up these days, I hope it gets a proper investigation.

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        Re: Found By Villagers; Covered Up By The Military

        David Gaunt really is great.....this guy has devoted much time trying to enlighten people of the armenian genocide (well at least here in sweden)......i listened to his lecture once and as i said he is great......

        i saw the kurdish news on roj tv....this channel is very pro-armenian (theyr'e trying to suck up me thinks...

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